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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.

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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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franceinfo.fr broke the news in on Tuesday, June 3, 2025.
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