Overview

• The Paris Administrative Tribunal suspended the French government’s age-verification order on June 16 to await a review of its compatibility with EU law
• Aylo reactivated Youporn, Pornhub and Redtube in France on June 20 after making them inaccessible at the start of June in protest of the new requirement
• The 2024 law requires porn sites to verify users’ ages via photo ID or a double-anonymity method, with Arcom empowered to impose sanctions including site blocking for noncompliance
• Aylo argues that age checks should be handled at the device or operating-system level rather than through the government’s proposed document-based system
• Aylo reports seven million daily French visitors to its platforms while Arcom data show 2.3 million minors access online pornography each month