Pornhub leaves France because of the age verification law
Pornhub leaves France because of the age verification law
The owner of Pornhub has suspended access to his website in France. The reason for this is concerns about a new French law that obliges pornographic pages to check the age of their users, the country's communication authority said on Tuesday.
measures of the French authorities
The regulatory authority Arcom gave in a the company Aylo to avoid the protection of minors. This was anchored in the digital regulations by exposing access to its content in France, including for adults.
technological solutions and market conditions
This decision was made despite the "numerous technical solutions on the market", which would enable it to verify the age of users and at the same time ensure the protection of their personal data, added the authority.
Aylo operates several pornographic websites and is owned by the Canadian private equity company Ethical Capital Partners. According to a report from reuters Pornhub on Tuesday that Aylo also blocked access to his pages of Youporn and Redtube in France.
French legislation on age verification
In 2024, France represented the second largest daily spectator group for Pornhub after the United States, according to the website. Last year, a law came into force that required pornographic pages to implement stricter technologies for age verification. This could include that users have to specify their banking card data, ARCOM explained in a document from October for implementation of the law .
Responsibility for the age check
according to the French newspaper le monde Aylo has previously argued that the age of the users should be checked via their devices - such as Smartphones or computers. This responsibility would therefore be with technology companies such as Apple, Google and Microsoft and not on the pornographic websites themselves.
reactions to the decision
Neither Aylo nor Ethical Capital Partners reacted immediately to a request from CNN. Aurore Bergé, the French minister of gender equality, commented in a On Tuesday on the decision of Aylo and explained, explained, that this meant "that less violent, humiliating and humiliating content will be accessible to minors in France." She added: "Pornhub, YouPorn and Redtube refuse to comply with our legal framework and decide to go. Good!"
global measures to protect minors
Governments worldwide tighten their efforts to protect minors on the Internet. In the United States, 19 states in which more than a third of the Americans live haveThese laws have led to some of the largest adult websites, including Pornhub, to refuse access to users from these countries instead of paying millions for ID test services.
Last week the European Commission began a Investigator and three other big erotic websites will not comply with the regulations that should protect minors from access to pornography. The EU's executive said last week that it developed an age verification app that should enable people to prove that they are older than 18 years without revealing other personal information online.
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