I posted the following up on TBB earlier today, but will expand on it a bit:
"In my mind this will not stop children accessing porn because as already mentioned, if they really want to access it they will use a VPN or could use TOR. One would think the government would already know this, but as politicians on the whole know nothing about how the internet works, maybe they don't know. Assuming they do know, then the agenda is probably nothing to do with stopping child access to porn but everything to do with banning VPN's further down the line when they can show that age verification didn't work."
The entire history of government involvement in ANYTHING remotely related to IT has always ended in one or more of the following, disaster, over budget, never ending up working properly or compromised security wise.
Politicians and and civil service management have little to no grasp as to how the internet works, GCHQ on the other hand knows exactly.
As i said in the TBB post, this is all to do with stopping end to end encryption in the uk and is is part of a "long game" the government and security services are playing. The people that come up with idea to "protect the children" know full well that CC age verification will never work, it isn't supposed to. Once they can hang the figures out to prove it hasn't worked they can then move on to VPN's and encryption in general, because of course they will have the proof that all the "children" are now using VPN's.