PARIS — New details about a French media regulator plan to block all major free adult sites in the country over a controversial age verification law surfaced today during a discussion held in the French Senate.
One senator proposed treating consensual, legal adult content „like terrorism or pedophilia.“
Representatives of ARCOM, a recently-formed agency that superseded former regulatory agency CSA, an analog of the American FCC, explained that due to a procedural error by their lawyers, a hearing scheduled for May 24 to decide whether to block Pornhub, xHamster, XNXX, Tufik and XVideos had to be postponed until Sept. 6.
It was also revealed that politicians had also “considered the curious idea of replacing the homepage of ‘porn sites’ with a black screen to verify ages,
