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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.

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[–] ToadOfHypnosis@lemm.ee 125 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 58 points 1 week ago

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

[–] truxnell@aussie.zone 68 points 1 week ago

Title is perfect

[–] oppy1984@lemm.ee 56 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] Kurious84@lemmings.world 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Kurious84@lemmings.world 5 points 1 week ago

I stand corrected! Hehe

[–] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

govts should stop making unenforceable laws

like the French govgt shouldn't even be considering making something like this if the website can just pull out of the country and still get all the traffic with vpns and tor

[–] dinren@discuss.online 49 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Governments are using these kind of things to distract people from the reality that the world is starting to boil over, the right wing has control, and the rich are becoming even richer to prepare for the inevitable climate apocalypse. They use things like same-sex marriage, abortion, pornography, drugs, tariffs, taxes, and all of those other fun things that people love to scream and yell about.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

They want a culture war, not a class war

Tale as old as time

Keep the peasants bickering amongst themselves and they won’t rebel against the lords and kings

[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] dinren@discuss.online 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, sorry, indeed that as well. There is such a long list of shit distracting us from reality

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah any sort of distraction, including infighting.

[–] comador@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Will they also make age verification required to go to the beaches in France too?

Perfect French beach picture here https://nudebeachmap.com/places/cap-dagde/

[–] remon@ani.social 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Nude beaches are not porn. Terrible comparison.

[–] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week 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.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago

That is a very cool website.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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...

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's one way to see a live goatse in the wild if you're not careful 😅

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago

Not a reliable prevention method.

[–] ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sounds like it's time for the French to get French

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What, specifically, does that mean in this context?

[–] CodeBlooded@programming.dev 14 points 1 week ago

The French are known to protest like no other.

[–] ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There's been a meme going around America lately that we need to take some inspiration from our French cousins. But it sounds like they need to find some more of that fire themselves if this is the state of things (I'm also including the smoking ban the article mentions)

[–] socsa@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago
[–] tal@lemmy.today 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

On an entirely-unrelated note, I would make the following observations:

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week 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

[–] rickdg@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

thinkofdachildra strikes again

[–] SonicBlue03@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago

Isn't Pulling Out a category on Pornhub?

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week 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

[–] Halosheep@lemm.ee 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This move hasn't done anything for changing the laws in Texas.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It protects PornHub from litigation, though.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Which is the point of the legislation. It's not about protecting kids. It's going after people they consider their enemies.

[–] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago

“Pulling out” 💦

[–] MrNesser@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] Benchamoneh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago
[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 9 points 1 week ago

Where you going Stepbrother?

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

XVideos will be used more.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

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

[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I am sure the fact that Pornhubs owners have their own AgeID solution that they have tried to sell to governments like the UK and didn't win exclusive rights has nothing to do with their decision to pull out of France.

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/porn-age-verification-laws-ageid-youporn-pornhub-mindgeek-uk-government-a8251791.html

How do I now keep my baguette in good condition?