To combat the exposure of children to pornographic sites, Emmanuel Macron has given six months to the "actors of the Internet" to "set up a parental control by default", rather than a voluntary option as it is the case currently. "I know that it embarrasses many platforms, many digital operators," he said Wednesday during a speech at the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. "Right now, we are preparing the law, if in six months we have no solution, we will pass a law for automatic parental control."
He also claimed that pornographic sites reinforce the age control of Internet users. "We will now specify in our penal code that simply declaring your age online does not constitute sufficient protection against access to pornography of minors under 15," he said promising to " block sites that will not respect this law ".
Sanctions strengthened for child pornography
Emmanuel Macron has also announced he wants to toughen the penalties for viewing child pornography images and introduce a parental control by default on the internet for access to pornographic sites. The penalties for the use of child pornography will be increased to 5 years and their authors automatically stuck to prohibit them from working with children. "Until today, one could have been sentenced for consultation and possession of child pornography but practice a profession in contact with children, because this information, however, capital was not accessible to all employers", a- he said.
From now on the persons sentenced for this crime, approximately 400 per year, will be registered in the file Figes. In addition, "all those who run nurseries, schools, sports clubs, associations approved, not only will but will have to consult this file when they hire someone". "As someone who sometimes committed the worst, 5 years, 10, 15 years ago, if she has served her sentence, she must be able to reintegrate into society, but we must not re-expose her to our children" , he said.