The Government will challenge the suspension of the courts of the imposing decree that the pornographic sites located in the controls of the European Union for the age of its users, the minister in charge of digital technology said Wednesday.
“Strong legal resistance”
Published in February, it extended to the EU sites the obligation to prevent minors from accessing their content, in accordance with a law approved in 2024, under the penalty of sanctions of the Digital and Audiovisual Gendarme, the Arcom, which can go as far as the blockade.
The editors of the site must demand the sending of a photo or an identity document, for example, offering at least one method that respects the principle of double anonymity that allows its majority to be demonstrated without revealing their identity.
“This type of litigation is not new or exceptional,” said the minister, denouncing the “strong legal resistance” by the sites involved “that all means to exonerate their obligations use.”
In recent years, child protection associations and X platforms have multiplied the procedures before the courts in France on this issue.
The European Union also attentive
For its part, the Arcom said that it would continue to act “against the sites established in France and outside the European Union” and recalled “that at European level, an action of magnitude also begins to deploy.”
Brussels significantly opened an investigation at the end of May, an investigation against four sites suspected of not taking sufficient measures to prevent minors from accessing their content.
The commission had also indicated that it would collaborate with the national authorities to ensure that smaller pornographic platforms apply the same rules.
On June 12, the Arcom had made a first warning against five pornographic sites based in the European Union, of which Xhamster was part.
Organized in Cyprus, Aylo, a giant parent company in the YouPorn and Pornhub sector suspended access to their sites in early June to protest this obligation.
Source: BFM TV
