Optimism abounds about the future of online child safety at Westminster policy event

A group of experts gathered together at a Westminster eForum policy conference to discuss the “Next steps for online safety policy and practice in the UK.”

Iain Corby, executive director at The Age Verification Providers Association, acknowledges the high scale of the problem of stopping young people from consuming pornography in the UK, noting the millions of porn sites worldwide and the widespread use of VPNs to avoid blocks.

However, he thinks it is reasonable that the norms that …

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