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Two million minors exposed to pornography: why the state is struggling so much to protect children

2022-06-29T16:26:50.891Z


INVESTIGATION - As of 2020, a law is supposed to prevent under 18s from accessing adult sites. In practice, the measure takes water.


More than two million minors, including very young ones, watch pornography every month.

They represent 12% of the 19 million visitors to adult sites recorded in April 2022. However, since the vote on the law on domestic violence in July 2020, French people under the age of 18 are supposed to be turned away at the entrance to these platforms.

The " Mercier

" amendment

indeed requires that these adult sites set up a verification of the age of users, under penalty of blocking.

However, for two years, nothing has really changed.

How to explain that the protection of children drags on so much?

“, annoys Senator LR Marie Mercier.

Despite his amendment, young people are still exposed to pornography.

Read alsoVerifying the age of consumers of pornography, a real technical headache despite the legal obligation

Barely started, the business was already going very badly.

Once…

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Source: lefigaro

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