The French government has announced it will move to block five of the world’s major porn sites from tomorrow unless they introduce protective measures to ensure all users are aged 18 or over.

Adult websites Pornhub, xHamster, XVideos, XNXX and Tukif were given until today to implement stricter age controls on users looking to access their content.

The move by France’s Higher Audiovisual Council looks to force the websites to comply with a law introduced last year which made it compulsory to carry out proper age verification checks for lanciao adult content.

The council said the sites’ current tactic of simply asking users to fill out a check-box stating they are over 18 is not satisfactory and that they are breaking the law by failing to introduce better controls.  

If effective verification is not implemented, the council said it would ask a judge to block the sites. 

‘Children faced by such content can suffer lasting shock at the very least,’ the council said.  

The French government has announced it will move to block five of the world’s major porn sites from tomorrow unless they introduce protective measures to ensure all users are aged 18 or over (stock image)

To successfully pass an acceptable age check, users would have to provide some form of verifiable identity document, or other personal information such as bank accounts, credit cards or mobile phone contracts.  

Justine Atlan, director of the child safety association e-Enfance, said: ‘It is important to put pornography sites under pressure so they cannot continue to flout the legal framework to which they have themselves agreed.’

‘The protection of children online is in no way contradictory to individual freedoms,’ he said.  

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Pornhub meanwhile argued that such rigorous checks would encroach on users’ privacy and challenged the accusation that it had done little to safeguard its community.

The porn giant said it ‘has dedicated itself to developing industry-leading safeguards for the protection of its community.’

‘French regulators should strive to emulate that commitment, rather than implementing plans that infringe upon the privacy of adults and leave large areas of the adult industry completely unchecked.’ 

Britain does not yet have such age verification controls in place, but a cross-party parliamentary committee announced on December 14 that they would push for the upcoming Draft Online Safety Bill to include similar protections for children trying to access adult content. 

The move sees France align with European neighbours Germany in their efforts to bring about change in the adult industry by taking action against sites and organisations that do not prevent children from accessing adult content. 

The two EU-member states share some of the world’s strictest rules for the regulation of adult content. 

Britain meanwhile does not yet have such controls in place, but a cross-party parliamentary committee announced on December 14 that they would push for the upcoming Draft Online Safety Bill to include similar protections for children trying to access adult content.

The long-awaited legislation will impose a duty of care on tech giants to protect users from harmful content. It will install Ofcom as regulator with the power to fine them up to 10 per cent of their global turnover.

The Government has two months to respond to the committee’s recommendations and the bill is due to be put to Parliament next year.

France

Five websites hosting sexually explicit content, including Pornhub, may be banned in France for failing to prevent children from accessing their content.

The national media regulator today announced that it had filed a legal complaint against the sites, which in late 2021 were told they needed to bring in a system to stop underage viewers. 

Pornhub, the world’s biggest pornography site by user numbers, is targeted as well as Tukif, Xhamster, Xnxx and Xvideos. 

Pornhub, alongside four other sex websites, may be banned in France for failing to prevent children from accessing their content (stock photo used) 

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Website operations cannot simply ask a user if they are over 18, under a new French law passed in July 2020. 

Roch-Olivier Maistre, the head of France’s Arcom media regulator, today told reporters that a case has been filed at a Paris court after operators ignored previous warnings. 

Arcom in a statement said: ’If justice rules in favour, these websites will no longer be accessible from French territory or via addresses registered in France.’

At the end of December, Portugal-based Tukif launched a legal appeal against the crackdown, claiming it was discriminatory because other sites were not included.

The ban, if approved by the court, would see internet operators in France ordered to prevent users from accessing content posted on the websites, Arcom said.

Acom today announced that it had filed a legal complaint against the sites, which in late 2021 were told they needed to bring in a system to stop underage viewers (stock photo used)

They would instead display a page explaining the restrictions.

When warned by the regulator in December, Pornhub criticised the watchdog’s decisions, which it said ‘infringe upon the privacy of adults’, according to EURACTIV France.

The site also told the news outlet that the move leaves a majority of the adult industry ‘completely unchecked’. 

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