• @barsoap@lemm.ee
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    21 days ago

    It’s kinda weird seeing this from Germany: Around here porn websites always required a proper age check (“are you 18” banners don’t suffice), which in effect means that the few porn sites that are hosted in Germany are paid (if you’re paying, an age check is trivial). That doesn’t mean that the rest is inaccessible, but it certainly doesn’'t have a .de TLD. It’s just how laws written for the offline age translated to online.

    What’s stopping pornhub from having a similar strategy in France? Continue to accept French IPs for the international version, paywall the French version.

    • @ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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      1921 days ago

      What’s stopping pornhub from having a similar strategy in France? Continue to accept French IPs for the international version, paywall the French version.

      Pornhub is ideologically against having to collect and verify data on their users for the government. They block traffic in all areas that pass these kinds of laws as a protest.