UK Online Safety Bill requires children to be prohibited from gaining access to sexually explicit material

The Children’s Commissioner, Dame Rachel de Souza, stated that her new study reveals that children’s access to pornography on the internet encourages them to commit sexual violence that they have observed and that children should be prohibited from accessing such information.

Tighter age limits on social media and tech businesses are the major goals for amendments to the Online Safety Act, and the proposals would require age verification to guarantee children are less exposed to adult content online.

Dame Rachel de Souza’s research revealed alarming results, revealing that children looked at pornography on the Internet for the first time at an average age of 13, underlining the danger of normalizing sexual violence.

The Children’s Commissioner claims that no child should have access to pornography, and she used legal authority for the first time to gather and examine child sexual abuse files from the police and the NHS Sexual Assault Referral Center. She found that a lot of the abuse was comparable to what children had seen in pornographic content posted online.