There is a bit of confusion, because this law was effectively dropped in 2019 but then resurrected and passed in 2023. Enforcement is due to start in 2025, with Ofcom currently exploring feedback from industry and users. People will be supposed to authenticate with official ID (passport, driving license, etc) when connecting to porn sites from the UK. Obviously the VPN market is already on the case - the question rea…
> to smaller, rogue sites where everything goes Or social networks becoming even more common for hosting/access. Reddit has a board for every category you'd want. Twitter is also full of content. I can't see any one of them requesting approval per-url.
That's covered by the Online Safety Act 2023, which effectively places responsibility on social media for the content they carry. It's very likely that we'll soon see calls to ban the whole of Reddit, for example. Predictions in this field are somewhat difficult because the UK government is likely to change at some point in the next 8 months - but the Act had bipartisan support, so it's possible that these policies will continue to be pursued and enacted in the same way as before.