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Pornhub is pulling out of France

c/world · u/MicroWave@lemmy.world · 306 points

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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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u/njm1314@lemmy.world · 5 points

Which is the point of the legislation. It's not about protecting kids. It's going after people they consider their enemies.

u/ZephyrXero@lemmy.world · 4 points

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)

u/Crikeste@lemm.ee · 1 points

I know nothing of their ethics, but PornHub looking like it’s made for a 2009 iPhone will always steer me to Xvideos

u/scarabic@lemmy.world · 14 points

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.

u/lepinkainen@lemmy.world · 20 points

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

u/Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 points

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

u/6nk06@sh.itjust.works · 9 points

I agree with you, but the Cap d'Agde has orgies all over the town if you know where to go, it's not really for nudists.

u/njm1314@lemmy.world · 3 points

Perhaps not but to the type of people that proposed this legislation I guarantee you they think it is.

u/LordGimp@lemm.ee · -11 points

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.

u/Akasazh@feddit.nl · 7 points

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...

u/Gsus4@mander.xyz · 2 points

That's one way to see a live goatse in the wild if you're not careful 😅

u/drmoose@lemmy.world · -33 points

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

u/fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net · 56 points

Whatever website people use instead of pornhub will be available to all ages by virtue of not following any laws.

u/oppy1984@lemm.ee · 56 points

I'm sure the editor who wrote that headline got a good giggle out of that.

u/untakenusername@sh.itjust.works · 40 points

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

u/comador@lemmy.world · 36 points

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/

u/Evotech@lemmy.world · 15 points

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

u/MrNesser@lemmy.world · 12 points

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

u/tankplanker@lemmy.world · 7 points

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.

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/porn-age-verification-laws-ageid-youporn-pornhub-mindgeek-uk-government-a8251791.html