26/03/2026
📣 Today, parliamentarians and charities – including UK Feminista, Barnardo's & CEASE UK - came together outside Parliament to deliver a united, urgent message: Government must accept the amendment requiring all po*******hy websites to verify the age, permission & ongoing consent of everyone featured in content on their platform.
🛑 Right now, po*******hy websites do not have to verify that everyone featured on their platform is an adult or gave permission for the content to be published. Sites are also free to continue publishing po*******hy of people against their will, as there is no way to withdraw consent. The consequences are horribly predictable: mainstream po*******hy sites have repeatedly been found hosting content featuring child abuse, sexual violence and trafficking victims.
On 2 March, the House of Lords voted to end this safeguarding scandal. An amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill tabled by Baroness Gabby Bertin was passed, forcing all po*******hy websites to verify the age and ongoing consent of everyone on their platform. The amendment was previously tabled in the Commons by Jess Asato MP and backed by 60 MPs cross-party. Yet it still isn’t clear if the Government will try to remove the amendment from the bill.
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Keep the amendment requiring age and ongoing consent verification in the Crime and Policing Bill - and enforce it without delay!
