Ofcom fines porn company £630000 for age check failings

Ofcom fined a porn site operator £630,000 for failing to implement age checks required under the UK Online Safety Act and for non-compliance with information requests. The enforcement action signals active regulatory enforcement of age assurance requirements on adult content platforms in the UK. If you operate or invest in age assurance technology, you now have proven enforcement with £630,000 penalties and a live market of platforms desperate to avoid Ofcom fines. If you host adult content anywhere reachable from the UK, you need provably 'highly effective' age checks deployed within months, not years—geoblocking is no longer a compliance substitute.