The sites are supposed to ensure that users are not under the age of 18.
The pornographic sites YouPorn and RedTube have been summoned by Arcom, the French audiovisual and digital regulator, to block their access to minors, before exposing themselves to a stoppage of their service by court order, according to warnings. residences published Wednesday, April 27 in the Official Journal.
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Last December, the regulator had already urged five other pornographic sites -Pornhub, Tukif, Xhamster, Xvideos, Xnxx- to comply with French regulations. He then took legal action in early March to request their blocking, for lack of reaction from the sites concerned. The Penal Code prohibits exposing minors to pornographic photos and videos and the law on domestic violence of July 30, 2020 specifies that the companies concerned cannot exonerate themselves from their responsibilities by simply asking an Internet user if he is major.
However, according to the findings of bailiffs made in February, YouPorn and RedTube are accessible after a “simple declaration of majority that just needs to be clicked“, indicates the Arcom in the two formal notices. The regulator points out that it requested clarification on these breaches at the beginning of March from MG Freesites, the publisher of the two sites, domiciled in Cyprus.
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Explanations ultimately deemed unconvincing by Arcom, which urges MG Freesites to take the necessary measures to prevent minors from accessing these two sites within 15 days of notification of this formal notice. If the same shortcomings were to be observed, the regulator could once again take legal action to order the main internet service providers to prevent access to YouPorn and RedTube.
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