Australia’s pornography age-verification: a victory for advocates or a gateway to ‘darker corners of the internet’?

Pornhub is among the websites that now display only safe-for-work content for users in Australia who visit without logging in. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

When porn sites began blocking Australians from access, it also meant X began age-checking users before they could look at adult content on the social media site.

But it asked some users to send a video selfie every time they wanted to look at a single picture or video.