U.K. becomes First Western country to ban (some) porn

Jonathon Van Maren, European Conservative

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

On November 3rd, the government tabled the Crime and Policing Bill in Parliament. It includes an amendment criminalizing pornography featuring strangulation or suffocation – usually referred to as ‘choking’ – with legal requirements for tech platforms to block this content from UK users. Both possession and publication of ‘choking’ porn will be a criminal offence, and the Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology stated that eliminating this sadistic material will be a “priority offence” under the Online Safety Act, putting it on the same level as child abuse material and terrorism content.