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Pornhub suspends porn in France over new age-verification law
This year, France has introduced requirements for all adult content websites to verify their users' age using details from credit cards or government documents read more Pornographic websites Pornhub and YouPorn have launched a campaign against the French government Pornographic websites Pornhub and YouPorn have launched a campaign against the French government after it introduced a law mandating the sites to take extra steps to verify users' age. Aylo, parent company of both websites, said it will stop streaming in France starting Wednesday (June 4) and instead will show a message denouncing the law. Solomon Friedman of Aylo's owner, Ethical Capital Partners, told reporters the purpose of the move is to tell the French people 'how dangerous, how potentially privacy-infringing, and how ineffective the French law is". STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD What is France's new age verification law? This year, France has introduced requirements for all adult content websites to verify their users' age using details from credit cards or government documents. The law says the websites must offer a third-party 'double-blind' option that would keep the platforms themselves from seeing users' identifying information. Aylo says move 'ineffective' Aylo maintains the move is not only ineffective but directly puts the users' privacy at risk from bad actors, hacks or leaks. Although Aylo executive Alex Kekesi told reporters that the company was 'extremely pro the concept of age verification", she warned that requiring platforms to verify age 'poses a very serious risk… with respect to your privacy rights.' Meanwhile, Friedman said the onus to verify the users' age must lie with the operating system providers. 'Google, Apple and Microsoft all have the capability built into their operating system to verify the age of the user at the operating system or device level,' he said. Their ability 'to supply an age signal to any site or app… can actually provide a solution' for controlling access to adult content without requiring users to share sensitive data with multiple websites, he argued. 'I understand that those three entities are large and they're powerful, but that is not an excuse for France to do what they have done.' Warning from France's culture minister Earlier on Tuesday (June 3), French Culture Minister Aurore Berge expressed her displeasure with the pornographic websites' stance and asked them to rather stop operating in the country than having to follow the new legal framework. 'There will be less violent, degrading and humiliating content accessible to minors in France,' she warned.
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07-03-2025
- Politics
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France extends age verification measures to porn giants
France introduced rules in January that required all French porn websites and those based outside the European Union to introduce a mechanism to check the age of users. This was extended with a decree published Thursday that widens the measures to companies based in the European Union, meaning Cyprus-based PornHub and YouPorn as well as Hungary-based Jacquie et Michel. France's culture ministry said the move will "at last enable us to block minors from accessing the most-visited porngraphic websites in France", calling it "a major advance in the protection of our children and adolescents." Successive governments have battled for years to find ways to stop young people viewing online pornography while balancing the right to privacy of adult users. Age verification can be done with a credit card or by sending an identity document, but websites are also required to offer at least one "double blind" option for users to prove their age without revealing their identity. This entails the user uploading an identity document to a service provider, which then sends confirmation they are old enough to visit the site to the porn provider without revealing the user's identity. Aylo, the parent company of Pornhub, has said it will comply with the law but has warned that the rules would likely prove "ineffective" and "dangerous" for users' security and privacy. It argues that under-age internet users could be sent to other less regulated and more extreme areas of the internet. A 2023 report by French senators entitled "Hell Behind the Scenes" concluded that there was "massive, ordinary and toxic" viewing of porn by children, as well as routinely violent content. The report found that two thirds of children aged 15 or less had seen pornographic content.
