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Giselle Woodley, Lecturer and Research Fellow in Communications and Sexologist, Edith Cowan University

Major porn sites have blocked Australian users to protest new laws. Will kids be better off?

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Over the past couple of days, Australian users trying to access some of the most popular porn websites hit a dead end. Sites such as Pornhub have prohibited all Australians from accessing pornographic content.

The blocks came just days before the official start of new online safety codes from the eSafety commissioner, which require organisations to verify the ages of users.

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