Overview

• After blocking its sites on June 4 to protest the new age-verification requirements, Aylo restored access in France on June 20 following the court ruling.
• The Paris administrative tribunal suspended enforcement of the decree on June 16, citing potential violations of the EU’s country-of-origin principle.
• Under the suspended law, adult platforms needed third-party systems requiring credit cards or government IDs for age checks, which Aylo warned would risk user privacy.
• Aylo is pressing for device-level filters by major tech firms to handle age verification more securely than site-by-site checks.
• Observers say the French outcome could shape similar measures in the United Kingdom, Germany and over a third of U.S. states, where the Supreme Court is reviewing Texas’s age-check law.