The government will ban so-called “barely legal” pornography of adults role-playing as children and depictions of some step-incest in a further crackdown on harmful online content.
There will also be a review into how pornography sites verify the age and consent of people featured in their videos, which will look at ways to allow people to withdraw previously given consent, Sky News has learnt.
The new measures mean the UK could have some of the strongest regulations of online pornography in the world, MPs told Sky News.
The government initially did not support the changes, leading to threats of a rebellion from female MPs who had been demanding further safeguards in light of a review into online pornography by the Conservative peer Gabby Bertin.
The review found online pornography was insufficiently regulated compared to offline, leading to an explosion of degrading, misogynistic and violent content.
Baroness Bertin tabled several amendments, which were passed in the House of Lords last month, inflicting defeats on the government.
This included a ban on pornography of adults pretending to be children, a ban on step incest pornography, the requirement for sites to verify age and consent and to allow people featuring in the videos to withdraw consent.
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