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The United Kingdom opened the ban years ago, trying to control access to adult explicit content websites among its population. It was an experiment that went wrong because it violated privacy and its security barriers were relatively easy to overcome . Given the failure of these policies, Britain had to pick up cable at the end of last year. However, that has not discouraged other countries from pursuing similar policies.

The last nation to embark on this path has been our neighbor to the north . In the Spanish collective imagination, France has had associated an image of freedom and debauchery. In large part, this is due to the excursions that (during late Francoism) thousands of compatriots made to Perpignan and other towns in the south of the country to go to an erotic cinema or to buy risqué magazines. Entertainments prohibited in Spain at that time. Now, 40 years later, it seems that the tables are turning .

The French Parliament has approved a new law that requires - mandatory - age verification protocols .

As in the UK years ago, the aim of this legislation is to prevent children from accessing explicit adult videos or photos that are available on the Internet.

To articulate these measures, the French Higher Audiovisual Council will now have executive powers with which to sanction companies that do not comply with the law. In the worst case, this body would have the power to block access from French territory to the wandering web pages .

That is to say, those who want to enter an erotic website for adults must provide some proof of their identity (by credit card, DNI, or the digital key with which citizens carry out procedures with the treasury ) will be able to access

The difficulty of verification: with a credit card or with your farm keys

Despite being the central object of this law and its most controversial point, French legislators do not establish a mandatory verification mechanism: they leave it to the discretion of the owners of adult pages.

However, by way of suggestion, lawmakers have noted that verification could be done using credit card verification (a system similar to the one that has already been tried in the UK and failed).

Another of the mechanisms that politicians suggest to control who enters these websites would be using FranceConnect . A digital tool developed by the French state -similar to Clave in the Spanish public administration- that is used in areas such as paying the Treasury or for health insurance .

However, things are not limited to these two points since the text suffers from a last procedure in the Senate - in which a single protocol could be incorporated - which is expected to go ahead without any problem, since this law has previously passed through the upper house without complications .

The sanctioning procedure envisaged by the French country is as follows: when the Superior Council of Audiovisuals detects that an adult website is operating without a verification or control barrier that requires user identification (as it currently does), it will send an alert to the owner from the web. If no steps have been taken to control access within 15 days, it will ask the Paris court to issue an order for telecommunications operators to block access to the web .

Also in Italy

France is not the only European country that seeks to limit minors' access to erotic content websites. In this sense, Italy is also currently working on similar measures to toughen access to adult websites.

In the Italian case, this legislation sparked a debate among experts, who were skeptical about whether these types of measures were not in contradiction with current European legislation .

However, the most extreme case in this regard is on the other side of the world. The Australian Home Office is studying the possibility of implementing facial recognition systems to access erotic content websites .

The verification process they propose would consist of the user who wants to enjoy adult content must provide an official document with a photo issued by the State (such as a driving license) and then undergo a facial recognition system with a webcam or with the camera of your mobile phone.

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