Dad’s delight at securing judicial review on porn age verification
from The Christian Institute:
A father of four who is challenging the Government over the lack of age verification on pornography sites has spoken exclusively to The Christian Institute about the importance of the case and his motivation for bringing it.
Last week, the High Court granted Ioannis Dekas, 52, and student Ava Vakil permission for a judicial review after the Government announced it would not be implementing a 2017 law to require pornographers to introduce strict online age verification checks.
The checks were approved under the Digital Economy Act 2017, but plans to implement them were abandoned in October 2019 when the Government claimed they would be covered by its Online Harms Bill. The Court agreed that the new law could prove to be weaker than the one it claims to replace. Dekas and Vakil are seeking crowdfunding to pay for the case.
‘Massive deterrent’
Mr Dekas told the Institute’s Ciarán Kelly how he discovered his son had been viewing online porn during lockdown after noticing a dramatic change in his behaviour.
He said: “Had age verification been in place there would have been a massive deterrent”.
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