Leading pornography websites currently allow individuals to upload pornographic videos without verifying the age or agreement of the individuals featured in those videos. Consequently, websites such as Pornhub have been found hosting and profiting from videos featuring rape, sex trafficking, child sexual abuse and intimate-image abuse.
The impact on victims whose filmed abuse is uploaded onto pornography websites can deeply traumatic and life-altering. Yet websites hosting user-generated pornographic content have continued to ignore public calls to implement robust age and agreement verification processes. This dangerous and harmful practice cannot be allowed to continue.
In order to stop women and girls in the UK being sexually exploited via pornography websites, it is vital the Online Safety Bill requires all pornography websites and user-to-user services to:
Will you write to your MP now and ask them to back amendments to the Online Safety Bill to require pornography websites to verify the age and agreement of all individuals featured?
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