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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Pulling out doesn’t work
Well not reliably.
I stand corrected! Hehe
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.
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/
It’s just that it’s really frowned upon if you beat the monkey on those beaches.
Plus the sand is coarse and rough and irritating and gets everywhere…
That is a very cool website.
That’s one way to see a live goatse in the wild if you’re not careful 😅
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
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
Governments are using these kind of things to distract people from the reality that the world is starting to boil over, the right wing has control, and the rich are becoming even richer to prepare for the inevitable climate apocalypse. They use things like same-sex marriage, abortion, pornography, drugs, tariffs, taxes, and all of those other fun things that people love to scream and yell about.
They want a culture war, not a class war
Tale as old as time
Keep the peasants bickering amongst themselves and they won’t rebel against the lords and kings
You forgot immigration.
Yes, sorry, indeed that as well. There is such a long list of shit distracting us from reality
Modern morality policing?
Not a reliable prevention method.
Sounds like it’s time for the French to get French
On an entirely-unrelated note, I would make the following observations:
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Monaco has no such law that I am aware of.
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French is used in Monaco.
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I don’t know whether Pornhub cares about the IP address from whence a user is accessing it, but NordVPN appears to have Monaco exit nodes.
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Pornhub apparently accepts cryptocoin payments via Verge.
French is also used in Belgium, and in Switzerland somewhat. Plenty of vpn locations to choose from.
Also iirc it’s just a shitty DNS block just like our piratebay block, so just changing your DNS to anything not hosted in France should work
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thinkofdachildra strikes again
Isn’t Pulling Out a category on Pornhub?
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.
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
Merde
“Pulling out” 💦
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
