Hey his threat. The Pornhub, YouPorn and Redtube parent company announced on Tuesday, June 3, that it was going to block its three sites in France on Wednesday afternoon. This, to express their opposition to the control of the time imposed by the Government, to prevent minors from accessing them.
As Tech & Co pointed out, the three adult platforms are now inaccessible in the country. Internet users who go to one of them will see a message from the Aylo group that explains their decision, entitled “Liberty has no deactivation button.”
“By suspending access to our site in France, we take a position: we refuse to compromise their privacy with measures that, paradoxically, do not effectively protect minors,” punish the parent company of Pornhub, YouPorn and Redtube in their message.
A age verification “directly on the device”
Aylo considers that not only force him to control the age of his visitors does not protect the minors, but also that he endangers the privacy of the French.
He also criticizes the government for not having collaborated with him to find a solution to verify the age of users without jeopardizing privacy and while protecting minors. According to him, one of the ways to achieve this would be to control the age of visitors “directly on the device.”
In other words, age verification must be imposed on operating systems manufacturers that are Apple, Google and Microsoft, as Aylo indicates in a press release. An opinion that Meta and Snapchat share.
Finally, he is alerted to the risk that French legislation pushes internet users to darker adult sites. “The harsh reality: this law deviates to users to thousands of sites that deliberately avoid regulations, do not verify the age of people in videos and actively encourage users to avoid this law,” the group warns.
Being smaller than giants such as Pornhub, these sites are not regulated. Therefore, they can offer more violent, even illegal content, which, for example, in minors.
Source: BFM TV
