France to introduce controversial age verification system for adult websites

Re:France to introduce controversial age verification system... by DanBC on Friday July 10, 2020 @06:35AM (#23790026)

People on HN always seem to misunderstand the point of these measures.

They're not there to make it impossible for anyone under the age of 18 to ever see pornographic content. They exist to make sure that porn isn't pushed at children who don't want to see it. It wasn't that long ago that pornographic ads were common on some ad networks or in email spam. It's this accidental stumbling upon porn that the measures aim to stop.

The blocks are always described in the strongest possible terms by the politicians pushing them because:

1) It makes the public think politicians are taking strong action against poor behaviour

2) It gives the politicians a stronger bargaining position: implement good voluntary age restrictions or we'll put in place a stupid filter.

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Re:France to introduce controversial age verification system... by randomchars on Friday July 10, 2020 @06:46AM (#23790105)

Where is porn pushed onto anyone in the internet now? I don't think I seen anything remotely porn-like without looking for it.

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Re:France to introduce controversial age verification system... by srean on Friday July 10, 2020 @08:43AM (#23790905)

Quite common if you were to watch a movie online for free. Not on Amazon Prime or Netflix of course, but not all movies that I am interested in is available on Netflix, Amazon Prime in my region.

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Re:France to introduce controversial age verification system... by catalogia on Friday July 10, 2020 @01:14PM (#23793785)

Is it merely coincidental that the sites where you're most likely to find pornographic advertisements happen to be websites for pirating media? Which aspect of these websites are politicians truly clutching their pearls over? The part about morality and kids, or the part about media corporations and money?

To the cynic in me, the answer is obvious.

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Re:France to introduce controversial age verification system... by randomchars on Friday July 10, 2020 @08:46AM (#23790925)

You mean those streaming sites, where the page is 3/4 advertisements? Yeah, I image those have porn ads, but adblock helps there too.

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Re:France to introduce controversial age verification system... by walls on Friday July 10, 2020 @01:15PM (#23793794)

I also do not see them being the kind of sites to comply with something like this.

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Re:France to introduce controversial age verification system... by GoblinSlayer on Friday July 10, 2020 @10:50AM (#23792013)

Streaming is cancer, block all streaming sites, especially Netflix.

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Re:France to introduce controversial age verification system... by wizzwizz4 on Friday July 10, 2020 @03:14PM (#23795177)

Don't see what's wrong with streaming per se. Of course, this is assuming you can cache it if you want to watch it multiple times – which you can't if you have certain kinds of DRM.

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