Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told

The government, the commissioner of England children, said that there is a need to stop children using virtual private network (VPN) to bypass age tests on porn sites.

Dame Rachel de Suja told BBC Newsnight that it “needs to close exactly a flaws” and called for age verification on VPN.

VPNs can dissolve your location online – allows you to use the Internet as you are in another country. This means that they can be used to bypass the requirements of the online security act, which makes users compulsory to start the age check of the age of some adult materials.

A government spokesperson said that VPNs are legal equipment for adults and have no plans to ban them.

Children’s commissioner recommended A new report includesIn which it was found that in the proportion of children, it has been said that they have seen online pornography in the last two years.

Last month was VPN Most downloaded apps at Apple’s App Store in UK Age verification was required after sites such as Pornhub, Redit and X.

Virtual private network users connect users to websites using a remote server and hide their actual IP address and location, meaning that they can ignite the block on special sites or materials.

Dame Rachel told BBC Newsnight: “Of course, we need age verification on VPN – it is absolutely a flaws that require closing and it is one of my major recommendations.”

She wants minister to find out the need for VPN “to implement highly effective age assurance to prevent underaege users from reaching pornography.”

The report also found that more children were accidentally stumbling in pornography, some of the children aged 16 and 21 said they had seen it “six or less age”.

More than half of the survey’s respondents strangled them to strangle children, indicating Dame Rachel that the government was also asked to ban its portrayal.

Pornography depicting the rape of a sleeping person was also seen as children by 44% of the respondents.

In July, data was collected before amending the Online Security Act, which was brought into age verification equipment for pornography.

Dame Rachel described the findings as “rock bottom”.

The commissioner said, “It tells us how much problems are there about the design of platforms, algorithms and recommended systems, who put harmful materials in front of children who ever sought it,” asked to report to act as a line in the sand.

The Department of Science, Innovation and Technology told the BBC that “children have been left to grow up in a lawless online world for a very long time” and “online security act”.

On Dame Rachel’s VPN comments, the spokesperson said there is no plan to ban them “but if the platform deliberately push children like VPN work, they have to face hard enforcement and heavy fines.”

Josh Lane was addicted to porn at the age of 14, when he was after searching for the first time through Google Search at the age of 12.

He told Newsnight that drug addiction inspired him to separate himself from friends and family as he was “afraid to find out that I was bent.”

Sri Len described “the only place I could find, I think, love and intimacy were from pornography” at the same time described as “piles of crime and shame”.

Now married 25 more happily, they did not see porn in about a year, but said that addiction is “a problem that affects you forever”.

Kerry Smith, CEO of the Internet Watch Foundation, said, “Contact for children’s extreme or violent sexual imagination can normalize harmful sexual behavior, and rapidly associated with sexual violence against girls and women”.

He said: “It is clear that this is something that we all need to take seriously, and adult sites of safety measures have to ensure that children cannot reach sexual content, should be strong and meaningful.”