The associations e-Enfance and la Voix de l’Enfant are taking up the attack again against online pornography sites that do not offer an age control system in France.
The case has been going on for almost three years now in France, several child protection associations have once again called for the blocking of pornographic sites for minors in France, carried out by internet operators (Orange, SFR, Bouygues Telecom, Free, Orange Caraïbe, SRR, Outremer Télécom and Colt Technologies Services).
Facing the Paris Court of Appeal, they are calling for Article 227-24 of the Penal Code, which provides that the broadcast of adult content “likely” to be viewed by minors be prohibited, or applied within 5 days. The problem is not recent: associations believe that a simple button to click on sites like Pornhub, Xnxx or others of the kind is not enough to protect minors from too early exposure to pornography. In the absence of an alternative in place, they are demanding that a penalty of €18,000 per day of delay be applied to these platforms.
ISPs have their role to play according to these two associations, which regret that they did not act beforehand or “spontaneously” to block the sites concerned by the complaint. Their lawyer goes even further, asserting that they “participated in, tolerated, facilitated a criminal offense” by not acting directly. Among the operators involved, most already assured in 2022 that they considered that this was not their role. The lawyer for Xavier Niel’s operator also affirmed “iWe must not do just anything when it comes to blocking. With imprudent case law, we quickly find ourselves in China“.
Source : Alloforfait
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