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The French Parliament unanimously agreed on Thursday to introduce a nationwide age verification system for pornography websites, months after President Emmanuel Macron pledged to protect children against such content.
Macron made the protection of children against adult content online a high-profile issue well before the coronavirus crisis hit. In January, tech companies, internet services providers and the adult movies industry signed a voluntary charter, pledging to roll out tools to help ensure minors don't have access to pornographic content.
Within a broader law on domestic violence, the Senate decided in June to introduce an amendment requiring pornography websites to implement an age verification mechanism.
In order to enforce the law, the French audiovisual regulator CSA will be granted new powers to audit and sanction companies that do not comply — sanctions could go as far as blocking access to the websites in France with a court order.
The choice of verification mechanisms will be left up to the platforms. But lawmakers have suggested using credit card verification — a system first adopted by the U.K., which mulled similar plans to control access to pornography but had to drop them in late 2019 because of technical difficulties and privacy concerns. Italy also approved a similar bill in late June, which raised the same concerns over its feasibility and compliance with the EU laws.
[...] The Senate has already voted on the bill. Following an agreement today between senators and lawmakers from the lower house National Assembly, a final vote will be held again in the Senate where the bill is expected to pass.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Sunday July 12 2020, @07:51PM (8 children)
Did anyone ask the children if they wanted to be protected against such content?
Children have no voice in a democratic society; no one cares what they think. It's up to voters, who are their parents and people of similar or older ages. And apparently French adults don't want children seeing any porn (which is weird to me; I thought continental Europe was supposed to be a little less Puritan about sex than America).
I am certain the youth of France will find a way to access all the "adult content" they want.
Most parents and older people are too clueless to know what a VPN is.
(Score: 2) by Opportunist on Sunday July 12 2020, @08:10PM
Well, sure as hell the geriatrics in the parliaments around the globe don't know what a VPN is.
And could we please leave it at that? As long as they think they're in charge, and we pretend that they are, they are mostly a minor nuisance but not really a problem.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday July 12 2020, @09:22PM (4 children)
But, have you seen "made in France for the French market fetish porn"? That's what they're trying to protect the children from, most of them don't understand what makes their own countrymen and women do some of the things they appear to enjoy...
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(Score: 2) by Opportunist on Sunday July 12 2020, @10:28PM (3 children)
To be honest, I don't know any French porn. Then again, I highly doubt that dialogue is the key element, I mean, has anyone watched Baywatch with sound as a kid? But if they're like the rest of their movies, I can only agree that the world should be kept safe from them.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday July 12 2020, @10:32PM
Baywatch is very popular in Europe, particularly Germany... for the obvious reasons.
I was kidding about the French porn, but as you say, the rest of their cultural output makes Woody Allen look positively normal...
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(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Monday July 13 2020, @07:10PM
There is one historic figure from France who was infamous for his sick sexual life: the Marquis de Sade.
You've made it big when languages get a new word based on your name, with the definition of course based on the most notorious thing for which you were known.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @05:41AM
You don't know Brigette Lahai? Being a pornstar in france doesn't carry as much stigma as it does in most countries - half the french population has done porn if I had to guess.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 12 2020, @09:40PM
Yes, seeing simple naked body parts. It's a different thing when it comes to your children watching shit or piss porn, or ethnic Arab kids picking up slut vocabulary from pornos and hurling it at respectable Frenchwomen on the street.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2020, @07:41PM
they're scared that if french youth watch modern porn all the french adults will have to take a dog trimmer to their waving pussy and dick manes!