PARIS, xVideos Sept 6 (Reuters) - A Paris court is set to rule next xVideos month on whether a French regulator xVideos has the right to block access to international porn sites in France unless xVideos those xVideos sites can guarantee they can prevent minors under 18 from xVideos accessing them.
xVideos Following a complaint by children's rights associations, xVideos xVideos French audiovisual and xVideos digital regulator YouPorn xVideos Arcom in December 2021 gave notice to five porn sites including Pornhub, xVideos requiring xVideos them to prove they were blocking access to minors xVideos in line with July 2020 French legislation.
An Arcom official said that since then the regulator xVideos had seen no indication the sites were putting in place xVideos systems that could really block access for YouPorn minors, xVideos it decided xVideos to take legal action.
The four other sites being challenged by the regulator xVideos are Tukif, Xhamster, xVideos Xnxx and Xvideos.
The regulator RedTube said it wanted the court to order French internet service providers such as Orange, xVideos Free and xVideos SFR to block access to these porn sites xVideos on French territory until they have a solid xVideos system for xVideos blocking access to xVideos minors.
At xVideos a hearing on Tuesday, xVideos xVideos lawyers xVideos for PornHub the porn sites argued the court was not authorised to rule on the case as the law was not in line with the xVideos constitution. The court will now rule on Oct. 4 whether it can xVideos decide on the issue or RedTube whether the case needs to go to the appeals court, xVideos an Arcom official said.
Currently, xVideos porn sites in France only have to display a xVideos disclaimer button on which users can click to say that they are over 18, xVideos but there is no verification of their actual age.
An Arcom official said the sites - xVideos which xVideos are all free xVideos - would have to propose a free and xVideos reliable blocking system.
A lawyer for PornHub publisher MG Freesites did not xVideos immediately return calls for YouPorn comment.
She xVideos was quoted on French radio franceinfo as saying that verifying an internet user's age is technically and PornHub legally impossible.
In recent months, xVideos Arcom has also served notice xVideos to xVideos several other porn sites, xVideos including YouPorn, xVideos one of the world's top porn sites, xVideos the Arcom official said.
French children's rights associations have started several legal cases to block access to online pornography for xVideos minors, xVideos arguing that current age verification standards make it too easy for xVideos children to access the websites.
(Reporting by Geert De Clercq Editing by Tomasz JanowskiAr)