David Cameron forges ahead with adult website age-verification plans

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£250,000 fine threat for adult sites anywhere in the world that fail to comply

The government is - probably unwisely - going ahead with its plans to demand that all adult websites run some form of age verification process to prevent children from accessing the material. Th...

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