Porn, the evil of the century

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Internet sites publishing pornography will now have to ensure that Internet users are of legal age.

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By: Amaury de Rochegonde Follow

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Amaury de Rochegonde talks to us about the protection of children and adolescents on digital screens, in particular on the occasion of the first formal notices from the CSA against pornographic sites.

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Last week, around 100 majority MPs launched a campaign against overexposure of children to screens, arguing how harmful it can be to learning, attention span, sleep, health diet or emotion management.

To protect our children from what they call " 

 ", these deputies will table a bill in February.

They would like warnings against the reckless use of screens to be present in health notebooks and the packaging of smartphones or tablets.

This is undoubtedly a laudable intention, but in terms of harmfulness, screens are arguably much less responsible for damage than pornography among adolescents and even children, since one in three minors under the age of twelve have already seen porn, according to Adrien Taquet, the Secretary of State for Children.

This has not escaped the legislator's notice since the law on domestic violence of July 2020 stipulates that pornographic sites must not be accessible to minors under the age of 18 and not only by encouraging them to download control software. parental.

The disclaimer, this button that simply asks if you are over 18, is no longer sufficient in the eyes of the law.

Porn publishers must now ensure that Internet users are of legal age, for example by asking for credit card details, which also poses another problem, which is that of access to such data.

The CSA, which recently controls digital, must ensure that these pornographic sites do not circumvent the law.

On Monday, he put five of them on notice to comply with their obligations on minors within fifteen days.

Failure to do so will be brought before the judicial court in order to force internet service providers to block access to the portals in question.

These portals are called Pornhub, Tukif, Xhamster, Xvideo or Xnxx… They are installed in Cyprus, the Czech Republic or Portugal, in short in the European Union.

And the most incredible, so far, is that they can expose without constraint scenes of violence, humiliation, sex without consent, even rape and pedophilia.

The

showed last year that of the 6.8 million videos posted each year on Pornhub, " 

 ."

Faced with this, the dereferencing of access providers has been necessary for a long time.

And not just for minors.

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