Five pornographic websites, which had received a formal warning from the ARCOM in August, implemented measures to verify the age of their users, according to a statement published Thursday by the French Digital Gendarme.
Given this observation, the Arcom College “decided not to initiate a blockage and referentiation procedure to them,” said the authority.
A ping-pong game between porn sites and authorities
The university has also decided not to put a sixth place that reactivates its age verification system, according to the press release.
The State Council has restored in mid -July that the Ministerial Decree forces to verify the age of the users of these sites, invalidating a suspension decision issued in June by the Administrative Court of Paris.
This obligation is now the issue of an uninterrupted ping-pong game between certain platforms and the French government.
From the Law of 2024, then the publication of the ARCOM of a repository on the media available to verify the age of the users, certain companies, such as the giant of the Aylo sector, the parent company of the platforms of Toporn, Pornhub and Redtube, they refuse to establish measures, evoking in particular the issue of the safety of Internet users.
In accordance with the criteria established by the ARCOM, the Editors of sites X must require the sending of a photo or an identity document, for example, proposing at least one method that respects the principle of double anonymity that makes it possible to demonstrate its majority without revealing their identity.
Arch said Thursday that he intended to evaluate the conformity of the age verification systems established by pornographic sites and that in case of “breach”, he can pronounce, if necessary, sanctions.
Source: BFM TV
