Aylo, the company that owns porn sites like Pornhub, YouPorn, and RedTube, is planning to suspend service in France in protest of a new law that will require porn companies to verify the age of visitors. The deadline for porn sites to implement age verification is June 7 but Pornhub will block users starting Wednesday, June 4, according to France24.

Websites will be required to verify a user’s age using a credit card or a government-issued ID document. France’s law requires porn companies to provide an option for age verification that relies on a third party, hypothetically protecting the user’s privacy. But Aylo has argued that third-party verification puts private information at risk of hacks and leaks.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 months ago

      Pornhub seems to be the sacrificial site so all the other MindGeek sites can keep going.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 months ago

      I know nothing of their ethics, but PornHub looking like it’s made for a 2009 iPhone will always steer me to Xvideos

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    Fake ass protectionism. IDs is just a way to have the government spy on your private sexual preferences. Any kid can see porn if they want to. This doesn’t stop shit. Porn can be pirated and it’s accessible in other countries with a VPN. This bullshit law is nothing but a way for the government to invade privacy.

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      512 months ago

      Whatever website people use instead of pornhub will be available to all ages by virtue of not following any laws.

  • oppy1984
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    502 months ago

    I’m sure the editor who wrote that headline got a good giggle out of that.

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      Oh they did. Having worked as an editor in a newsroom I can assure you that the cheeky headline is never, ever accidental and the person who wrote it is always, always stroking themselves over how clever they are. They live for this shit.

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    Too late France is already pregnant!

    Serious note the only way to fight these laws is to make the ip addresses of visitors publicly available.

    Watch as every high profile person suddenly switches position

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      It’s just that it’s really frowned upon if you beat the monkey on those beaches.

      Plus the sand is coarse and rough and irritating and gets everywhere…

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      32 months ago

      That first pic is so gross - just like a mass of beached walruses. I have nothing against naturalism and naked beaches but that’s straight up fetish territory lol

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          42 months ago

          It has nothing to do with sexuality. Way to build a strawman

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          92 months ago

          I mean yeah they kinda do or people wouldn’t exist today. At some point, some rocks have to get off for the species to survive.

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        12 months ago

        Perhaps not but to the type of people that proposed this legislation I guarantee you they think it is.

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        62 months ago

        I agree with you, but the Cap d’Agde has orgies all over the town if you know where to go, it’s not really for nudists.

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      72 months ago

      French is also used in Belgium, and in Switzerland somewhat. Plenty of vpn locations to choose from.

      Also iirc it’s just a shitty DNS block just like our piratebay block, so just changing your DNS to anything not hosted in France should work

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    42 months ago

    Requiring sites to verify users without presenting them with a digital solution to do that is wild

    You cannot tell people that they should send copies of their ID to random porn sites lmao