France to require porn websites to have age control

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France to require porn websites to have age control

This photo taken in Toulouse, southern France, shows screens displaying an age restriction warning sign and the logos of the pornographic sites Pornhub right and Xhamster left on May 24, 2022.

PARIS - France will present a digital-certification mechanism to oblige pornography websites to control the age of viewers on their sites from September, French digital minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Monday.

If you want to visit these websites, you need to install an application for government-licensed digital certification on your mobile phone to prove that they are at least 18 years old. Sites that do not comply will be banned from publishing in France.

In an interview with French newspaper Le Parisien, Barrot said, "I intend to put an end to this scandal in 2023, it is the end of access to pornography websites for our children."

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France will become the first country in the world to take such measures, according to Barrot.

Users in France and most European countries must be 18 to be able to access pornography. Users can enter a fictional birth date on their screens and enter a fictional birth date, but there is no effective control mechanism.

According to a 2018 OpinionWay poll published on the French government's I protect my child against pornography site, nearly one in three children have been exposed to pornography by the age of 12 and 62 percent by the age of 15.