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French Get a VPN Day...

Pornhub websites self block to users in France


Link Here9th June 2025
The European Commission announced Monday that it is opening investigations into the adult platforms Pornhub, XVideos, XNXX and Stripchat for what the European Union's executive branch characterizes as suspected breaches of key age assurances provisions in the Digital Services Act (DSA).

According to the commission, investigations into all four of the above platforms focus on potential risks posed to minors of the European Union's member states, but also the absence of effective age verification measures. Initial findings prompting the investigation determined that the platforms currently do not comply with age-appropriate design and mitigation measures and risk assessment, and ensuring a high level of privacy, safety, and security for minors, in particular with age verification tools.

The European Commission also announced that it has reclassified Stripchat, a popular streaming platform with an operational base in Cyprus, as no longer being a very large online platform (VLOP). The DSA defines a VLOP as an online platform with over 45 million users across E.U. member states.

 

Pornhub self blocks French users

Aylo, the company owning the pornhub websites responded to this EU move and to local French censorship demands by self blocking itself from users in France.

 

Reports of a surge in VPN use

Inevitably there will be an uptick in French users resorting to VPNs.  Swiss privacy software maker Proton suggested in a post on X that it's seen a surge in people using its VPN software in France, presumably in a bid to circumvent the porn blocks. VPN services are software tools that create a secure, encrypted tunnel which allows users to hide their IP address - effectively masking their location from websites and service providers seeking to block their users.

In response , French Digital Minister Clara Chappaz posted to her followers on X:

If Aylo prefers to leave France than apply our laws, thats up to them.

Chappaz admitted it's possible to bypass age verification on pornographic platforms by using a VPN, adding:

There will always be a way to circumvent [blocked content], but it [the law] makes it much harder

 

A statement from Pornhub

Pornhub have explained the reasons for the self blocking in a statement by Alex Kekesi, VP Brand and Community, on behalf of Aylo:

We've made the difficult decision to suspend access to our sites (user-uploaded content platforms, including Pornhub, YouPorn, Redtube) in France and instead use our platforms to speak directly to the French people.

French citizens deserve a government and a regulator who are serious about preventing children from accessing adult content. They also deserve laws which protect their privacy and safeguard their sensitive data.

For years, we have attempted to collaborate with the government, by consultation, data sharing and offering pilot project participation. The results of all of this have been clear 203 site-based age verification does not work. It does not protect children, and it exposes the data of millions of French people to privacy breaches and hacks.

Your government won't tell you the truth about this, but we will.

There is a simple, easy-to-implement and immediately available solution to this issue 203 device-based age verification*. All it requires is that the government enforce regulations on three companies 203 Apple, Google and Microsoft 203 the three operating system manufacturers requiring age verification at the device level prior to accessing adult content. The French government refuses to take this simple step and instead are focused on futile and entirely symbolic regulatory actions which are unenforceable, do not protect children and expose your private data.

As of June 4, 2025, millions of consenting adults in France will no longer be able to access our library of thoroughly moderated and consensual adult entertainment on one of the most trusted adult sites in the world 203 a site that, we believe, is better at safeguarding its community than any other user generated content platform, including mainstream social media platforms. Sites like ours, which host legal and regulated porn will no longer be available in France, but thousands of irresponsible porn sites will still be easy to access.

We know people will not stop looking for porn. They just migrate to hundreds of thousands unsafe platforms that have not only chosen to be non-compliant, but also have far fewer, if any, Trust and Safety policies in place. In effect, all data indicates that these laws have just diverted traffic to dangerous websites that have made the conscious decision to act illegally. The way France has chosen to implement age verification is ineffective, haphazard and dangerous.

You deserve real solutions to stop minors from accessing adult content. We want to be part of that solution. But this symbolic law will do nothing to protect children. Demand that your government have the courage to get this right.

 

 

 

Miserable Sweden...

Swedish government proposes to criminalise men who pay adult cammers and OnlyFans performers


Link Here15th May 2025
Full story: Sex Work in Sweden...Criminalised purchase of sex
Repressive  Swedish law currently criminalizes purchasing or procuring in-person sexual services but does not criminalize sex workers who provide such services. This approach is commonly referred to as the Nordic model. Under the new proposal, anyone who pays someone to perform a sexual act online, without actual physical contact, would be subject to the same criminal liability as those who hire in-person sex workers.

The proposal also includes liability for procuring such services, which could lead to enforcement against fan and webcam platforms, or conceivably even against creators who collaborate together.

Swedish creators have expressed concern that, under the proposed law, OnlyFans' terms of service could preclude Swedish creators from using the site -- and could even criminalize their personal lives, since living with a partner or receiving support could now be considered pimping.

The ESWA, a sex worker-led network representing more than 100 organizations in 30 countries across Europe and Central Asia, told XBIZ that it has launched a public petition urging the Swedish government to reject this proposal. The group writes:

This proposal represents a regressive and dangerous step that threatens the human rights, privacy, safety and livelihoods of sex workers and digital creators in Sweden and beyond. Websites and platforms hosting or facilitating consensual digital sex work could be prosecuted for 'digital pimping' creating a chilling effect that may lead to mass deplatforming of sex workers.

The ESWA is urging anyone who supports Swedish sex workers to add their name to the open letter. See petition from eswalliance.org


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