It’s kinda weird seeing this from Germany: Around here porn websites always required a proper age check (“are you 18” banners don’t suffice), which in effect means that the few porn sites that are hosted in Germany are paid (if you’re paying, an age check is trivial). That doesn’t mean that the rest is inaccessible, but it certainly doesn’'t have a .de TLD. It’s just how laws written for the offline age translated to online.
What’s stopping pornhub from having a similar strategy in France? Continue to accept French IPs for the international version, paywall the French version.
What’s stopping pornhub from having a similar strategy in France? Continue to accept French IPs for the international version, paywall the French version.
Pornhub is ideologically against having to collect and verify data on their users for the government. They block traffic in all areas that pass these kinds of laws as a protest.
Doesn’t seem like a real requirement if Pornhub and similar sites can get away with their “only click if you’re 18”-banners just the same. Making a distinction between sites hosted inside Germany and outside Germany doesn’t seem like smart lawmaking to me.
It’s also “sites directed at a German audience”, but using that as a justification for DNS bans is rare. I guess practically more relevant is that German google isn’t serving up those international sites.
German law doesn’t require 100% security when it comes to youth protection stuff, not only would that be impossible but it’s also not the intent, because once kids are old enough to actively seek something out, they’re by and large old enough to consume it. What youth protection really cares about is not having kids just stumble over things they have no reference frame for.
It’s kinda weird seeing this from Germany: Around here porn websites always required a proper age check (“are you 18” banners don’t suffice), which in effect means that the few porn sites that are hosted in Germany are paid (if you’re paying, an age check is trivial). That doesn’t mean that the rest is inaccessible, but it certainly doesn’'t have a .de TLD. It’s just how laws written for the offline age translated to online.
What’s stopping pornhub from having a similar strategy in France? Continue to accept French IPs for the international version, paywall the French version.
Pornhub is ideologically against having to collect and verify data on their users for the government. They block traffic in all areas that pass these kinds of laws as a protest.
Rare corporate W.
Edit: I take that back. Apparently, they want device level verification
Doesn’t seem like a real requirement if Pornhub and similar sites can get away with their “only click if you’re 18”-banners just the same. Making a distinction between sites hosted inside Germany and outside Germany doesn’t seem like smart lawmaking to me.
It’s also “sites directed at a German audience”, but using that as a justification for DNS bans is rare. I guess practically more relevant is that German google isn’t serving up those international sites.
German law doesn’t require 100% security when it comes to youth protection stuff, not only would that be impossible but it’s also not the intent, because once kids are old enough to actively seek something out, they’re by and large old enough to consume it. What youth protection really cares about is not having kids just stumble over things they have no reference frame for.