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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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
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.
good
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.
How do I now keep my baguette in good condition?
XVideos will be used more.
I know nothing of their ethics, but PornHub looking like it’s made for a 2009 iPhone will always steer me to Xvideos
Title is perfect
Where you going Stepbrother?
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Sounds like it’s time for the French to get French
What, specifically, does that mean in this context?
Anal sex?
The French are known to protest like no other.
There’s been a meme going around America lately that we need to take some inspiration from our French cousins. But it sounds like they need to find some more of that fire themselves if this is the state of things (I’m also including the smoking ban the article mentions)
Pulling out doesn’t work
Well not reliably.
I stand corrected! Hehe
I am sure the fact that Pornhubs owners have their own AgeID solution that they have tried to sell to governments like the UK and didn’t win exclusive rights has nothing to do with their decision to pull out of France.
Not a reliable prevention method.
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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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
Modern morality policing?
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You forgot immigration.
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Yeah any sort of distraction, including infighting.
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
