Coroner Urges Tighter Controls After Teen Porn Death

A New Zealand coroner linked a Christchurch-area teenager’s accidental death to addiction to violent pornography, calling it evidence for tighter online restrictions and safeguards after repeated viewing “desensitised him to the potential harms.”The case is fuelling debate over age verification, content moderation and education for parents, clinicians, policymakers and platforms as extreme sexual material spreads online.The scrutiny comes amid UK regulator Ofcom pressing Elon Musk’s X and its parent xAI over Grok-generated “nudified” images, warning the Online Safety Act allows penalties up to 10% of global revenue and, as a last resort, court-backed blocking in the UK.