La Voix de l'Enfance and e-Enfance ultimately lost their case against nine pornographic sites.

The Paris Court of Appeal rejected on appeal the request of the two child protection associations which demanded that French telecom operators block access to several pornographic sites, accused of not preventing the exposure of minors to their content.

However, the criminal code prohibits it on these sites, but the court criticizes the applicant associations, whose requests had already been dismissed in October, for not having "acted, nor attempted to act" against the nine sites targeted, and this at the time that their owners or publishing companies are identifiable and communicate an address located in the European Union, she explained in a judgment.

However, blocking by Internet service providers can only intervene as a last resort, after the applicants have demonstrated "the impossibility of acting effectively and quickly against the host, against the publisher or against the author disputed content.

Salvo of formal notices

Since the law of July 30, 2020 on domestic violence and the publication in the fall of an implementing decree, the media regulator can indeed give notice to pornographic sites to take measures to prohibit their access to minors, and failing that, turn to the president of the Paris court to order their blocking.

This same law specifies that the companies concerned cannot exonerate themselves from their responsibilities by contenting themselves with asking an Internet user if he is of legal age.

Arcom launched a first salvo of formal notices at the end of December and announced on March 8 that it had taken legal action to request the blocking of the Pornhub, Pornhub, Xhamster, Xvideos and Xnxx sites.

A hearing is scheduled for May 24 in this procedure in Paris.

Two other sites, YouPorn and Redtube, were also given formal notice in April by Arcom to prevent their access to minors.

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