US EditionShein Bans Sale of All Sex Dolls Around the World Following French Investigation
French authorities investigate Shein, Temu, AliExpress, and Wish for possible child pornography crimes linked to child-like sex doll sales, with penalties up to five years imprisonment.
- On Monday evening the Paris prosecutor’s office opened investigations into Shein, Temu, AliExpress and Wish after the French consumer watchdog reported sales of sexual objects resembling children.
- The European Commission had already sought information from Shein in February, while a July mystery shopping exercise preliminarily found Temu breached the Digital Services Act.
- The case was handed to the specialised minors office to carry out inquiries, and Shein pledged yesterday evening to act against resellers and temporarily delisted its adult category banning ‘sex dolls’.
- Facing the probe, platforms have taken uneven steps: AliExpress removed listings described as `strictly prohibited` and pledged action against third‑party sellers, while Temu and Wish did not respond at publication.
- Prosecutors may pursue criminal charges that carry up to five years in jail for certain platforms, with the Paris prosecutor’s office probing if Shein and AliExpress created pornographic depictions of minors; the European Commission found in June that AliExpress breached governance rules.
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PARIS >> Online retail platforms Shein, Temu, AliExpress and Wish are being investigated in France for alleged rule breaches that include minors being able to access pornographic content via their marketplaces, the Paris prosecutor said on Tuesday.
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Paris, France. France will investigate four e-commerce giants for having sold sex dolls, some with childish appearance, a case that has shocked the country.The aim is to detect the “dissemination of violent, pornographic or dignity-defeating messages accessible to a minor” in Shein, AliExpress, Temu and Wish, told AFP on Monday the Paris prosecutor's office, which commissioned the investigation to the juvenile protection office (Ofmin).In the ca…
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Shein bans sale of all sex dolls around the world following French investigation
Shein said Monday it permanently banned “all seller accounts linked to illegal or non-compliant sex-doll products,” pulled every related listing and image, and will tighten controls globally. The retailer also paused its adult products category “as a precaution” after France’s Directorate General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control said the items’ descriptions left “little doubt as to the child pornography nature of the content.”…
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