YouPorn PARIS, YouPorn Sept 6 (Reuters) - A Paris court is YouPorn set to rule next month on whether a French regulator YouPorn has the right to block access to international porn sites YouPorn in France unless those sites can guarantee they can prevent minors under 18 from accessing them.
Following a complaint by children's rights associations, YouPorn French audiovisual and xVideos digital regulator YouPorn Arcom in December 2021 YouPorn gave notice to five porn sites including Pornhub, YouPorn requiring them to prove they were blocking access to minors in line with July 2020 French legislation.
An Arcom official YouPorn said that since then the YouPorn regulator YouPorn had seen no indication the sites were putting in place systems that could really block access for RedTube YouPorn minors, RedTube it decided to take legal action.
The four other sites being challenged by the regulator YouPorn are Tukif, Xhamster, YouPorn Xnxx and Xvideos.
YouPorn The regulator YouPorn said YouPorn it wanted the court to order YouPorn French internet service providers such as Orange, YouPorn Free and YouPorn SFR to block access to these porn YouPorn sites YouPorn on French territory until YouPorn they have a solid system for YouPorn blocking access to minors.
At a hearing on Tuesday, YouPorn lawyers for YouPorn the porn sites argued the YouPorn court was not authorised to rule on the case as the law was not in line YouPorn with the constitution. YouPorn The court will now rule on Oct. 4 YouPorn whether it can decide YouPorn on the issue or YouPorn whether the case needs to go to the appeals court, YouPorn an YouPorn Arcom official YouPorn said.
Currently, YouPorn porn sites YouPorn in France only have to display a disclaimer button on which YouPorn users YouPorn YouPorn can click to say that they are over 18, YouPorn but there is no verification of YouPorn their YouPorn actual age.
An Arcom official said the sites - which YouPorn are all free - would have to propose a free and YouPorn reliable blocking system.
A lawyer for PornHub publisher MG YouPorn Freesites did not immediately return calls for RedTube comment. She was quoted on French radio franceinfo as saying that YouPorn verifying an internet user's age is technically and YouPorn legally impossible.
In recent months, YouPorn Arcom has also served notice to several other porn sites, YouPorn including YouPorn, YouPorn one of the world's top porn sites, YouPorn the YouPorn Arcom official said.
French children's rights associations YouPorn have started several legal YouPorn cases to block access to online pornography for YouPorn minors, YouPorn arguing that YouPorn current age YouPorn verification standards make it too YouPorn easy for YouPorn children to access the websites. (Reporting by Geert De Clercq Editing YouPorn by Tomasz JanowskiAr)