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.
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?