France Introduces New System to Limit Access to Porn by Minors

Issuance of: 2023/07/02 – 08:10change: 2023/07/02 – 08:24

“I will put an end to this scandal,” Digital Affairs Minister Jean-Noël Barrault told the French daily. Le Parisien on monday.

French data protection and media regulator quenir and Alcom will release its latest proposal to curb porn websites that would theoretically be subject to age-verification legislation in 2020.

Previous attempts have been hampered by privacy and technical issues and lawsuits by the website.

Last September, a Paris court ordered Arcom to enter into arbitration with several porn sites, including market leader Pornhub, suspending efforts to block them.

Under the new proposal, those wishing to access explicit content will have to download a phone application that provides a digital certificate and code, Parisian reported.

The code will be required to access porn websites under a system that “works like a bank check when you buy something online,” Barrott told the paper.

“By 2023, children will no longer visit porn sites,” he added.

“Hell Behind the Scenes”

President Emmanuel Macron, who is married to former schoolteacher Brigitte Macron, pledged to make protecting children from pornography a priority during his candidacy for re-election last year.

In November Child Online Protection Institutean initiative aimed at bringing together industry giants and researchers to find ways to protect minors online.

Last September, “behind the scenes of hellA French senator (“l’Enfer du Décor”) concluded that there was “massive, normal and harmful” viewing of pornography by children.

Reports have found that two-thirds of children under the age of 15 have seen pornographic content.

The French production industry has been plagued in recent years by a series of sexual assault cases in which women have come forward alleging rape, abuse and manipulation by the director and fellow actors.

(With AFP)