UK's Tories Promise To Enact Age Limits For Viewing Online Porn

An anonymous reader writes with this news from the UK: The Conservatives say they will force hardcore pornography websites to put in place age-restriction controls or face being shut down if they win the election. The culture secretary, Sajid Javid, said the party would act to ensure under-18s were locked out of adult content after a recent Childline poll found nearly one in 10 12-13 year olds were worried they were addicted and 18% had seen shocking or upsetting images. Experts welcomed the move – targeted at both UK-based and overseas websites – but warned it would take hard work to implement in practice.

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Re:And where are the parents?

[SuricouRaven]

Childline is run by the NSPCC. The NSPCC has something of a history of abusing statistics and using poor survey methodology to generate scary statistics.

Here's a BBC article on their survey: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/educ...

I can't find anything yet that describes exactly how the survey was carried out - mostly I find columns expressing shock at the claimed numbers - but I wouldn't trust the findings too much without checking where they come from.