{"id":18921,"date":"2025-04-14T10:07:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T10:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/18921\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T10:07:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T10:07:23","slug":"france-could-pull-the-plug-on-pornhub-this-summer-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/18921\/","title":{"rendered":"France could pull the plug on Pornhub this summer \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Under the law, France’s audiovisual and digital services regulator Arcom has the power to block porn sites if it deems they are not implementing age verification properly and in time.<\/p>\n

“The Minister for Digital Affairs Clara Chappaz has told us that the first site blocks could take place this summer,” a member of parliament familiar with the matter said, granted anonymity to disclose details of confidential conversations.<\/p>\n

Pornhub’s owner Aylo is already challenging the law in court.<\/p>\n

For the time being, only French and non-European pornographic sites can be blocked. Starting Friday, those porn websites had to offer at least one secure age verification system that checks visitors’ ages through things like a verified identity document or even a video selfie that estimates a user’s age.<\/p>\n

That’s led to a rush from age verification software providers to offer their services to porn websites.<\/p>\n

There has been “definite and last-minute interest” in verification tools in the run-up to Friday’s deadline in France, said Iain Corby, the president of AVPA, a large association of such software providers<\/a>. But, he added, the association for now has spotted few actual deployments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Under the law, France’s audiovisual and digital services regulator Arcom has the power to block porn sites if…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[7960,12490,8612,3032,12491,6511,7964,2000,299,36,7965,6512,2443,182,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-18921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-big-data","9":"tag-content-moderation","10":"tag-cyprus","11":"tag-czech-republic","12":"tag-data-breaches","13":"tag-data-protection","14":"tag-enforcement","15":"tag-eu","16":"tag-europe","17":"tag-france","18":"tag-platforms","19":"tag-privacy","20":"tag-regulation","21":"tag-social-media","22":"tag-youth"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114335766484831532","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}