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French court blocks porn sites over age verification for child protection


The Paris Court of Appeal ordered some pornography websites to be blocked on Thursday over failure to implement robust age verification systems that are

The Paris Court of Appeal ordered some pornography websites to be blocked on Thursday over failure to implement robust age verification systems that are capable of preventing minors from accessing the adult content, Politico reports. Child safety concerns lie behind other recent high-profile interventions on tech platforms — such as the arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov in France in August under a new cybercrime law. The European Union also recently designated four adult websites under the strictest layer of the bloc’s online governance framework to push them to use stronger age verification as a child safety measure.

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