Aylo, the company that owns porn sites like Pornhub, YouPorn, and RedTube, is planning to suspend service in France in protest of a new law that will require porn companies to verify the age of visitors. The deadline for porn sites to implement age verification is June 7 but Pornhub will block users starting Wednesday, June 4, according to France24.
Websites will be required to verify a user’s age using a credit card or a government-issued ID document. France’s law requires porn companies to provide an option for age verification that relies on a third party, hypothetically protecting the user’s privacy. But Aylo has argued that third-party verification puts private information at risk of hacks and leaks.
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I’m sure the editor who wrote that headline got a good giggle out of that.
Oh they did. Having worked as an editor in a newsroom I can assure you that the cheeky headline is never, ever accidental and the person who wrote it is always, always stroking themselves over how clever they are. They live for this shit.
govts should stop making unenforceable laws
like the French govgt shouldn’t even be considering making something like this if the website can just pull out of the country and still get all the traffic with vpns and tor
Modern morality policing?
Will they also make age verification required to go to the beaches in France too?
Perfect French beach picture here https://nudebeachmap.com/places/cap-dagde/
That first pic is so gross - just like a mass of beached walruses. I have nothing against naturalism and naked beaches but that’s straight up fetish territory lol
People do not exist for your sexual satisfaction.
I mean yeah they kinda do or people wouldn’t exist today. At some point, some rocks have to get off for the species to survive.
It has nothing to do with sexuality. Way to build a strawman
Not a reliable prevention method.
Sounds like it’s time for the French to get French
Isn’t Pulling Out a category on Pornhub?
thinkofdachildra strikes again
Requiring sites to verify users without presenting them with a digital solution to do that is wild
You cannot tell people that they should send copies of their ID to random porn sites lmao
“Pulling out” 💦
This move hasn’t done anything for changing the laws in Texas.
It protects PornHub from litigation, though.
Which is the point of the legislation. It’s not about protecting kids. It’s going after people they consider their enemies.
XVideos will be used more.
Pornhub seems to be the sacrificial site so all the other MindGeek sites can keep going.
I know nothing of their ethics, but PornHub looking like it’s made for a 2009 iPhone will always steer me to Xvideos
Too late France is already pregnant!
Serious note the only way to fight these laws is to make the ip addresses of visitors publicly available.
Watch as every high profile person suddenly switches position
I am sure the fact that Pornhubs owners have their own AgeID solution that they have tried to sell to governments like the UK and didn’t win exclusive rights has nothing to do with their decision to pull out of France.
