Overview

• Starting June 4, Pornhub, YouPorn and RedTube will suspend adult content in France and display the slogan “La liberté n’a pas de bouton off.”
• Aylo condemns the requirement for site-level age checks as disproportionate, ineffective and a threat to user privacy.
• The company is urging the European Union to shift age-verification duties to device manufacturers or app stores instead of individual websites.
• Digital ministers Clara Chappaz and Aurore Bergé defended the new verification rules as essential for protecting minors online.
• With France as its second-largest market after the United States, Aylo expects the shutdown to incur significant advertising revenue losses.