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Who decides what is or isn't an X-rated website? Are the authorities going to block tumblr or twitter because of all the porn on there? If not then what is the purpose of this law?

How are websites going to get blocked? DNS filtering? Asking the sites operators to block all traffic from the UK by default?

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> Are the authorities going to block tumblr or twitter because of all the porn on there? If not then what is the purpose of this law?

No. This is a Brexit-style law, the point is to send a message, through the newspapers. Not to be bothered with any details about how it might actually work.

I can write a scalable webservice that is able to detect such content with 90%-95% accuracy including locations of offending areas; based on some very recent (2 months old) Deep Learning research. I presume they can do that as well and take 5-10% failure rate as acceptable. If I were running my own social network and wanted to keep it clean, I'd use it without any hesitation. But those are technical means, this is a political issue.

Does it handle literotica? (Could the UK under the new law?)

No, just images. But it might be doable as well - look at a recent post from fast.ai for text classification.

Interesting point. Issuu.com do online magazines, mostly the usual fashion/motoring/sport/and so on, but there is some stuff on Issuu that stretches racy a little thin.

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