porn It is accessible to France again after a suspension of the country’s age verification law.
The law came into force at the beginning of this month. He states that porn sites must install a third -party technical system to verify the ages of users beyond a “Yes or No” box. This requires a credit card or a government ID. On June 16, the Administrative Court of Paris suspended the law Until it is considered legal under EU law, the European Euractive News site announced.
According to the EU’s “country of origin”, created by the E-Commerce 2002 Directive, one country cannot regulate a company centered on another EU state, unless a specific process is followed, including the announcement of the host country and the European Commission, Digital Watch Observatory reported. The French government believes it has followed the process by announcing Cyprus, where Aylo (owner of platforms like Pornhub, Yuporn and Redube) and Jamster is grounded, and waiting three months before implementing the law.
The question is whether France notified the European Commission.
Pornhub blocked himself in France on June 4 because of the law. Now, she has returned entry into place, Aylo Mashable told.
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“While important questions about law enforcement in France are being taken into account, we claim that French citizens deserve regulations that will prevent children from entering adult content and which can be implemented effectively,” Aylo said by email. “They also deserve their privacy and sensitive data to be protected. Again, we believe that the current approach faces important challenges in achieving these important goals.”
The statement goes on to say that adult content is in hundreds of thousands of sites, not the few that France featured as pornhub. “The court’s decision to suspend the order, based on questions about compliance with the EU country of origin, offers an opportunity to review the most effective approaches as we look forward to the Court of Justice of the last European Union decision,” he said.
Aylo defended for the device level filters to block juveniles from entering pornography, citing concerns of the intimacy of age verification in the country. He also says, “We are determined to be part of this solution and we want to cooperate with the government, civil society and technology partners to achieve an effective solution to the device based on equipment.”
France’s Digital Minister, Clara Chappaz, posted on X that she is committed to implementing age verification and that it is an advantage.
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In the US, Americans are waiting for a decision by Supreme Court If the Law on Verification of Texas Age is unconstitutional. This will establish a precedent for these state laws across the country, where about a third now have similar statutes. Free speech lawyers have told Mashable that Age rating will not work because in the ability to protect someone’s true location with a VPN. An initial study from NYU suggests that Age verification does not work for similar reasons.
After Pornhub came out of France, VPN proton without an increase of 1,000 percent On records in 30 minutes.
