YouPorn and RedTube are in the sights of Arcom.

The French audiovisual and digital regulator has ordered the two pornographic sites to block their access to minors before exposing themselves to a stoppage of their service by court order, according to formal notices published this Wednesday, in the Official Journal.

Last December, the regulator had already urged five other porn sites (Pornhub, Tukif, Xhamster, Xvideos, Xnxx) to comply with French regulations.

He then took legal action in early March to request their blocking, for lack of reaction from the sites concerned.

🔞 Protection of minors against online pornography: @Arcom_fr asks two sites to respect their legal obligations by adopting, within 15 days, measures to prevent minors from accessing their content 🔽

— Arcom (@Arcom_fr) April 27, 2022


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Asking a user if he is an adult is no longer enough

The Penal Code prohibits exposing minors to pornographic photos and videos and the law on domestic violence of July 30, 2020 specifies that the companies concerned cannot exonerate themselves from their responsibilities by simply asking an Internet user if he is major.

However, according to the findings of bailiffs made in February, YouPorn and RedTube are accessible after a “simple declaration of majority on which it is enough to click”, indicates Arcom in the two formal notices.

A period of fifteen days to take the necessary measures

The regulator points out that it requested clarifications at the beginning of March on these breaches from MG Freesites, the publisher of the two sites, domiciled in Cyprus.

The explanations were ultimately deemed unconvincing by Arcom, which urges MG Freesites to take the necessary measures to prevent minors from accessing these two sites within fifteen days of notification of this formal notice.

If the same shortcomings were to be observed, the regulator could once again take legal action to order the main internet service providers to prevent access to YouPorn and RedTube.

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