Porn showing choking or incest to be banned from early November, government says
Pornography depicting choking or incest will be banned in the UK from early November, following a review into porn regulation.
Intelligence analysis by Qwen 2.5 (3B)
The UK government is banning pornography showing choking or incestuous relationships from early November, following a review into porn regulation.
The government is making it illegal to show choking or incest in porn from November. This is to stop people from thinking it's okay to hurt others in real life.
Analysis
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Key points
- Pornography showing choking or incest will be banned from early November in the UK.
- The review found that such content was normalizing harmful sexual acts among young people.
- The new laws carry penalties of up to five years in prison for publishing and up to two years for possession or depicting certain sexual activities.
This law will help prevent young people from thinking it's normal to hurt others, and it will make porn companies stop showing this kind of content.
Even with this law, it might still be hard for tech companies to remove all the harmful porn from the internet, so some people might still see it.
