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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 9 December 2025
Debate
Crime and Policing BillContribution
I recently found a porn site with no age verification barriers at all, dedicated to rape porn. Who do I report this to? I cannot. It may be inconvenient for the Government, and indeed Ofcom, to acknowledge this, but, without a deeper infrastructure in place to ensure enforcement and implementation, real change will be hard to achieve. Mastercard and Visa stopped payments overnight when Pornhub was found to have millions of child sexual abuse images freely available. Within 24 hours, the images were gone. They will be obliged to do the same with other types of harmful pornography if the Government make these changes. Better law and regulation will give the ancillary services—payment providers, advertisers and investors—propping up this industry a proper road map to follow. Once the money starts getting affected, change often miraculously occurs.
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