Millions of porn videos will not be blocked by UK online age checks

Clause means children will be able to view content on social media and image-sharing sites

Millions of sexually explicit videos will still be available online to children in the UK after new age verification rules come into force, due to a "commercial basis" clause that exempts social media and image-sharing websites.

Age verification (AV) regulations presented to parliament by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) last week do not include websites on which less than a third of content is pornographic material and where it is provided free of charge.