Re:Porn sites go dark in France over new age verification rules
by tossandthrow on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @08:08AM
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That is not correct.
In law making the is a concept of standards VS. Rules - look it up.
"you can not serve explicit erotica material to people under the age of 18" is very much a rule. It is super easy to asses whether you do it.
The law should not mandate how to comply.
Law makers do not care if you refrain from pressing the speeder or drive an under powered car.
For example, a malicious inspector could open the site and pass any verifications in place while a minor is in the room, notice that the site did not prevent the minor from seeing the content, and fine the site.
Conversely, the site could claim they have found some fancy data analysis method to prevent access to minors in the wild while simply implementing some "we believe you are minor" page to be randomly generated once in a while, and claim in court that they have done their best and at most a small handful of children are getting around their complex protections.