{"id":543919,"date":"2025-11-02T09:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T09:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/543919\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T09:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T09:54:10","slug":"french-consumer-watchdog-reports-shein-over-childlike-sex-doll-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/543919\/","title":{"rendered":"French consumer watchdog reports Shein over childlike sex doll \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in May, the European Commission and consumer protection authorities had also\u00a0notified<\/a>\u00a0the platform of alleged violations of consumer protection law, including fake discounts and misleading sustainability claims. EU Justice Commissioner Michael McGrath later said<\/a> he was determined to crack down on the sale of goods on Temu and Shein that do not comply with EU regulations.<\/p>\n

“As a reminder, the distribution of child pornography<\/a> via an electronic communications network is punishable by up to seven years’ imprisonment and a fine of \u20ac100,000,” the French DGCCRF said in Saturday’s statement. The agency also reached out to the French platform regulator Arcom, which is responsible for regulating companies such as Shein.<\/p>\n

The platform was ordered to take appropriate measures swiftly. Shein told Agence France-Presse<\/a> the items have been removed from the platform and an investigation was launched to find out how the sellers managed to circumvent the control processes. <\/p>\n

The DGCCRF also reported to the prosecutor and Arcom that pornographic content such as adult-looking sex dolls is available without filtering measures to restrict access to minors, which is also against French law.<\/p>\n

Shein is especially controversial in France: The most recent incident is the platform’s arrival<\/a> at the flagship department store BHV in Paris, which sparked outrage among suppliers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back in May, the European Commission and consumer protection authorities had also\u00a0notified\u00a0the platform of alleged violations of consumer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2001,2437,2438,6314,2000,299,5187,36,23908,7965,3695],"class_list":{"0":"post-543919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-communications","9":"tag-companies","10":"tag-department","11":"tag-e-commerce","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-france","16":"tag-michael-mcgrath","17":"tag-platforms","18":"tag-sustainability"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543919","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=543919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}