More than 250 senators co-signed a transpartisan motion for a resolution “
calling for making the fight against pornographic violence a public policy priority
”, we learned Monday, February 13 from its authors.
This text will be discussed in the hemicycle of the Senate on March 1, the day before the start of the debates on the pension reform.
All of the presidents of the eight political groups in the Senate are among the signatories.
Several protection proposals
The motion for a resolution, which has no binding value, follows a shocking Senate report published last September denouncing the abuses of the porn industry and calling on the government to act.
The proposal drafted by the authors of the report invites the government in particular "
to implement an interministerial plan to combat this violence
" and to "
explore all the fiscal measures making it possible to tax the activity of the pornographic industry and the billions of euros in profits it generates each year
".
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It recommends a strengthening of the criminal arsenal. The text also makes several proposals to protect the youngest from exposure to pornographic content.
On the subject of access to porn sites, the way in which these sites will have to verify the age of their users must be presented shortly by the government, Arcom and Cnil.
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In their report, senators Annick Billon (centrist president of the delegation for women's rights), Alexandra Borchio Fontimp (LR), Laurence Cohen (CRCE with a communist majority) and Laurence Rossignol (PS) denounced productions "which reach the paroxysm
of violence
”.
"
The omerta that weighs on violence committed in a context of pornography must end
", they say in the explanatory memorandum to their motion for a resolution.
