UK's House of Lords votes to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members
Online platforms' content teams must block and remove stepfamily porn immediately
Change
UK's House of Lords passed an amendment by one vote adding production of pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members to the ban on harmful online content.
Why it matters
Online hosts and distributors will face a new legal prohibition on producing or making available porn that depicts sexual acts between adult stepfamily members. That creates an immediate compliance obligation to identify, block and remove such material or face enforcement risk.
Implications
- — Online platforms' content moderation and legal teams — must immediately update upload, detection and takedown policies to block, remove and prevent uploads of pornography depicting sex between stepfamily members — failure to do so risks regulatory enforcement or legal action under the harmful-content regime.
- — Adult-content producers and distributors targeting UK audiences — must cease production or distribution of filmed stepfamily sexual content to UK users immediately — continued distribution risks criminalisation or prosecution once the ban is enacted into law.
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