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