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John Scott-Railton on U.K.’s Age-Verification Laws

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Feed Name: The Citizen Lab

Date Published: 2025-09-16

Date Updated: 2026-04-19

Author: Alyson Bruce

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A brief note cites Citizen Lab’s John Scott-Railton discussing the U.K.’s new age-verification law and its unintended consequences, warning that stricter age checks may reduce traffic to compliant platforms while pushing users toward sites that bypass verification, thereby undermining the law’s protective intent.

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