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Hammered in court...

French court reinstates age verification requirement for porn websites


Link Here18th July 2025
France's highest court, the Council of State, hasreinstated age/identity verification rules for EU-based porn websites under the country's Security and Regulation of the Digital Space (SREN) law, ruling in favor of the French government and against Hammy Media.

Cyprus-based Hammy Media, which operates the adult site Xhamster, challenged the application of SREN's age verification regulations to sites based in other EU countries. The Paris Administrative Court temporarily suspended enforcement of those rules, but French authorities appealed to the Council of State, which has now dismissed the company's immediate objections.

In its decision, the Council of State ruled that Hammy Media failed to demonstrate that the SREN rules would prevent the company from distributing adult content to users of legal age.

Pornhub parent company Aylo opted to block access to its sites in France rather than comply with AV requirements under SREN. When the Paris Administrative Court suspended those rules, the company reversed that move and made the sites available again. Because of the latest court decision,  Aylo has announced that it will resume blocking access.

 

 

Seek and you will be fined...

Russia is set to fine internet users for searching for material that it does not like


Link Here18th July 2025
Full story: Internet Censorship in Russia...Russia and its repressive state control of media
Russian lawmakers have passed controversial legislation that would dramatically expand the governments ability to punish internet users -- not for sharing forbidden content but for simply looking it up.

The new measures, which sailed through the Russian parliament and will take effect in September, will introduce fines for people who deliberately searched for knowingly extremist materials and gained access to them through means such as virtual private networks, or VPNs.

VPNs are already widely used in Russia to circumvent the many blocks on websites.

Russia defines extremist materials as content officially added by a court to a government-maintained registry, currently with about 5,500 entries, or content produced by extremist organizations ranging from the LGBT movement to al-Qaeda.

Until now, Russian law stopped short of punishing individuals for seeking information online; only creating or sharing such content is prohibited. The new amendments follow remarks by high-ranking officials that censorship is justified in wartime.

Similar legislation passed recently in neighboring Belarus, Russias close ally ruled by authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko, and has been used to justify prosecution of government critics.

The fine for searching for banned content in Russia would be about a $65, while the penalty for advertising circumvention tools such as VPN services would be steeper -- $2,500 for individuals and up to $12,800 for companies.

 

 

Offsite Article: Won't somebody think of the adults...


Link Here18th July 2025
Pointing out the dangers of handing over personal ID data to scammers, blackmailers and thieves taking advantage of age verification

See article from wionews.com

 

 

Censorship hub...

With one month to go to the British 'Get a VPN Day' Aylo announces that its porn tube websites will implement age/ID verification


Link Here26th June 2025
Ofcom will be relieved that the world's most famous porn tube site will be brining its websites to the age/ID verification fold.

For those stupid enough to hand over ID that can used to maintain a log of their porn viewing, the age/ID verification will start by 24th July 2025. Surely it will be safer to continue porn viewing by using a VPN.

Ofcom has announced that several major providers have agrees to bring in robust methods to check users' age/ID for the first time. Ofcom Writes:

By 25 July, all sites and apps that allow pornography --  whether they are dedicated adult sites or social media, search or gaming services -- must use highly effective age checks to ensure children are not normally able to encounter it. Online firms who publish their own pornography are already required to protect children from it, and thousands of sites have already introduced robust age checks in response.

Major porn providers operating in the UK have confirmed to Ofcom that they will introduce effective checks by next month's deadline in order to comply with the new rules. They include PornHub, the most-visited pornographic service in the UK. Other services who are happy to be named at this stage include BoyfriendTV, Cam4, FrolicMe, inxxx, Jerkmate, LiveHDCams, MyDirtyHobby, RedTube, Streamate, Stripchat, Tube8, and YouPorn. This represents a broad range of pornography services accessed in the UK.

Monitoring compliance with these new duties is a priority for Ofcom. If any company fails to comply with its new duties, Ofcom can impose fines and -- in very serious cases --  apply for a court order to prevent the site or app from being available in the UK. As part of our work enforcing the Online Safety Act, we have already launched investigations into four porn providers and won't hesitate to take further action from July. Under 18s exposed to adult content

Robust age checks are a cornerstone of the Online Safety Act and will help protect children from harmful content. Under the Act, age assurance methods -- which include age verification, age estimation or a combination of both -- must be highly effective at correctly determining whether a user is under 18. Highly effective age checks include credit card checks, open banking or facial age estimation.

From 25 July, all social media, search and gaming sites and apps must prevent children in the UK from encountering harmful content including suicide, self-harm and eating-disorder content. Tech firms will have to apply the safety measures set out in our Children's Codes, or take alternative action to meet their duties, to mitigate the risks that their services pose to children.

The riskiest services will have to use highly effective age assurance to identify which users are children. Any provider that operates a recommender system and poses a medium or high risk of harmful content must configure their algorithms to filter out harmful content from children's feeds.

The services named today have indicated that they plan to deploy a type of age assurance solution which Ofcom said could be capable of being highly effective in our guidance. As we noted in our guidance, the way in which these solutions are implemented in practice will be the ultimate test of whether it is compliant with the OSA

Ofcom hasn't said much about other major porn tube sites that are not mentioned in the list. In fact most of the tube sites listed are owned by Aylo.


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