Pornhub Exits France, Its Second-Biggest Market, over Age Verification Law
- Aylo, owner of Pornhub, YouPorn, and RedTube, suspended user-uploaded content access in France on Wednesday over age verification law conflicts.
- The suspension follows France's gradual 2025 mandate requiring adult sites to verify users' ages via credit card, ID, or third-party 'double-blind' services.
- Aylo executives stated they support age verification but warn platform-level checks threaten user privacy and promote a privacy-infringing, ineffective law.
- Pornhub will display a message featuring Delacroix’s painting 'Liberty leading the people' to French visitors, calling the law dangerous and ineffective.
- French officials welcomed the suspension as reducing minors’ access to harmful content while urging Aylo to comply, but Aylo suggests system-level age verification by OS developers instead.
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MAINTENANCE. The journalist and specialist of the pornographic industry, Jean-Francois Cloutier, analyses for Le Point the springs of the operation of the platforms that have suspended their access in France.
Owner Suspends Pornhub, YouPorn, RedTube in France - The Thinking Conservative
Firm behind Pornhub, YouPorn and RedTube suspended access to adult platforms in France protesting having to verify users are 18 or older. The post Owner Suspends Pornhub, YouPorn, RedTube in France appeared first on The Thinking Conservative.
Owner Suspends Pornhub, YouPorn, RedTube in France
PARIS—The firm behind Pornhub, YouPorn and RedTube has suspended access to the adult content platforms in France from Wednesday, in a move that media said was in protest against a requirement for porn sites to verify that their users are 18 or older. “I can confirm that Aylo has made the difficult decision to suspend access to its user-uploaded platforms (P-rnhub, YouP-rn, RedTube) in France. We will be using our platforms to directly address th…
The hour of the "end" of Youporn, RedTube and Pornhub rang. Or at least, of their legal consumption in France. The Aylo group blocked these sites in France in protest against the introduction of a system of age verification. Do consumers change their habits? "Marionne" takes stock with Maxime Spira, manager of the erotic bookstore La Musardine in Paris.
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