Instead of the so-called 'porn block', ministers will punt the development of a "duty of care" scheme out to a new arms-length regulator. Under the plans, commercial porn sites would have been forced to show they are verifying users are over 18. (Image: Getty Images)Ex-Culture Secretary Matt Hancock claimed the porn block would be "fully in place" by "April 2018". And in June, then-Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright said it would take another six months to iron out kinks in the policy. "The Digital Economy Act objectives will therefore be delivered through our proposed online harms regulatory regime.

Source: Daily Mirror October 16, 2019 14:03 UTC