Why is this still being argued?
The plans are already final. This was announced many years ago and there have been many many talks about it, panels, advisor boards and what not. Now they set the final date, and everyone will have to comply. And if you don't your site get blocked from being accessed from the UK. It's very simple. There are no ifs or buts.
Also people keep mentioning Visa/Mastercard, but the age verification can not be done by card (you can get cards when you are 13 in the UK).
The big companies such as Mindgeek have already been working on their age verification system for this for ages. They will be ready. If you are not, your site will just be blocked by the UK ISPs just like many other countries block your sites such as China and arab countries.
As far as I understand Mindgeek will be offering theirs to third parties. So you can just implement theirs and if a user is already verified on say pornhub or one of their other sites, they don't have to verify on your site again.
This is the guy in charge for the product:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-cooke-46586817/?ppe=1
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+ Heading MindGeek's worldwide initiative on Age Checking and Verification
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also see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MindGe...tion_in_the_UK
