This is before the House of Lords at the moment.

It is the Online Safety Bill.

One can only presume that porn makes use of mobile handsets somehow unsafe; that perhaps the naked images leap outwards through the screen and somehow grab the viewer by the throat?

Or perhaps cause heart-attacks amongst the Lords?

Were it actually an online safety bill I would want it to exclude malware, not porn; and further make it illegal to use end-of-life software in a Government office.

A BILL TO

Make provision about the promotion of online safety; to require internet service providers and mobile phone operators to provide a service that excludes pornographic images; and to require electronic device manufacturers to provide a means of filtering content.

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1 Duty to provide a service that excludes pornographic images

(1) Internet service providers must provide to subscribers an internet access service which excludes pornographic images unless all the conditions of subsection (3) have been fulfilled.

(2) Where mobile telephone network operators provide a telephone service to subscribers which includes an internet access service, they must ensure this service excludes pornographic images unless all the conditions of subsection (3) have been fulfilled.

(3) The conditions are—

(a) the subscriber opts-in to subscribe to a service that includes pornographic images;

(b) the subscriber is aged 18 or over; and

(c) the provider of the service has an age verification policy which has been used to confirm that the subscriber is aged 18 or over.

(4) In subsection (3) “opts-in” means a subscriber notifies the service provider of his or her consent to subscribe to a service that includes pornographic images.

2 Duty to provide a means of filtering online contentManufacturers of electronic devices must provide customers with a means of filtering content from an internet access service at the time the device is purchased.

3 Duty to provide information about online safetyInternet service providers and mobile telephone network operators must provide prominent, easily accessible and clear information about online safety to customers at the time the internet service is purchased and shall make such information available for the duration of the service.

via Online Safety Bill (HL Bill 137).