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Lawyers have begun judicial review proceedings against the government over allegations it failed to stop children in the UK watching online pornography.
Age verification for legal pornography sites was introduced under part 3 of the Digital Economy Act in 2017 but the government never enforced it.
Ministers have said the planned online harms bill will instead protect children by placing a burden on internet providers to protect users from “harms” including viewing pornography while under age.
But critics point out that this bill is currently only at white paper stage with no current date to bring it before parliament.
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By Branwen Jeffreys
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image captionMr Dekas is seeking a High Court hearing with a young woman who is also concerned
A father and a student campaigner are seeking a High Court hearing to consider whether the government should tighten youngsters access to porn.
Ioannis Dekas and Ava Vakil want the government to implement proof of age for access to pornography promised in the 2017 Digital Economy Act.
It comes as new research suggests the majority of 16 and 17-year-olds in the UK have recently seen pornography.
The government is currently preparing a new Online Harms Bill.
This bill would go further than the Digital Economy Act, giving the watchdog, Ofcom, powers to block access to online services - including social media platforms and search engines - which fail to do enough to protect children.
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A female student has accused a prestigious £20,000-a-year school of having a systemic , deep-rooted and poisonous culture of misogyny and alleged that male pupils sexually assaulted and harassed girls.
A bombshell 11-page open letter describes King s College School in Wimbledon, south-west London, as a hotbed of sexual violence .
The author, a former Wimbledon High School pupil called Ava Vakil, invited girls to share their experience of sexual violence or harassment from students at King s.
In her letter to headmaster Andrew Hall, Ms Vakil accuses male pupils of violent and drunken sexual assaults, telling rape jokes and threatening rape, and circulating nude photos of girls without their knowledge in group chats.