France introduced new regulations Thursday that will require major pornography sites to check the ages of visitors or risk being blocked.
France introduced rules in January that required all French porn websites and those based outside the European Union to introduce a mechanism to check the age of users.
This was extended with a decree published Thursday that widens the measures to companies based in the European Union, meaning Cyprus-based PornHub and YouPorn as well as Hungary-based Jacquie et Michel.
France’s culture ministry said the move will “at last enable us to block minors from accessing the most-visited porngraphic websites in France”, calling it “a major advance in the protection of our children and adolescents.”
Successive governments have battled for years to find ways to stop young people viewing online pornography while balancing the right to privacy of adult users.
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