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This was the same place that had zero age of consent up until a lawsuit years ago. 2 eleven year old girls were raped, the men never charged, so they fought to have the law changed AND WON!!!
I mean that’s what they’ll say it’s for. Because nobody wants to let kids watch porn obviously. But in practice; 

People who want to visit these websites will have to install an application for government-licensed digital certification on their mobile phones to prove that they are at least 18 years old.

Yeah that’s very different to blocking access to porn for minors. >

The Reddit take: "This is clearly government overreach, an attempt to backdoor computers!"
The reality: This is some minister or group of them trying to raise their profile with a perennial move, one which is absolutely never really enacted. >

So a government official who is promoting government overreach..... >

Right, as a career builder, not a realistic plan. >

thats how it all starts buddy. better rally against it now as hard as possible instead of just treating it like some far fetched idea which could never actually take hold in society. >

This isn't rallying, this is voidscreaming. >

gotta start somewhere dude. >

Question is, what do they define as a pornographic site? Twitter openly allows porn, and if people have to visit a site to tweet it's going to kill the platform in the country. People by and large aren't going to install an app to upload pics of the meal they last ate with the caption "thinking of him." >

So does Reddit. Going to be a very tough implementation. >

And yet the age of consent in France is 15.  So you can have sex with someone who isn't old enough to watch porn for three more years. >

Literally the French President was banging his 32 year old teacher at 15 who is now his wife >

sorry what >

You heard him. >

I hope they know that a fucking 6 year old will be able to find their way around those apps. This is old people reacting to things that scare them. Kids shouldn't be looking at porn, obviously. But this isn't going to stop them. >

They will probably install a VPN instead of a government app >

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Why not just be better parents... crazy fucking thought >

Bold move to boost the IT education of the youth. Bravo! >

Pretty much. I doubt any teenager's gonna say "alright, guess I'm not watching porn anymore" and leave it at that. >

"I'll just use my NordVPN!" >

Lol yeah let's not hold parents responsible for monitoring their children's internet usage. Instead we should make everyone install government mandated spyware. >

“I’m over 18,  ”
Good job, pays des droits de l’Homme >

I think you'll find it's:

Je suis 18?
[Oui] [Non]

If there's one thing I know for certain of our southern neighbour, using English for this would be more offensive than the block itself. >

*J'ai 18 ans ?
In French, you say your age as a possession rather than something that you are. Also, you put a space before any punctuation that is 2 marks. >

Yeah, the guy in the photo looks like a porn loremaster. I can see why he wants to gatekeep. >

what an absolute waste of time and resources >

Yes, porn being found by 11-year olds isn't ideal/good, yes it has huge impacts on development of young children. No, invasion of privacy is not the answer to this. >

It is, in fact, the only answer. >

Good luck. >

are you older than 18?  yes. ok proceed. >

yeah, good fucking luck guys. genuinely one of the most impossible endeavors i've heard of. >

Of all countries to restrict porn, this was not on my bingo card. >

It's only considered porn if it's not in French.
"Mon Dieu!  Plus rapide!!! Oui! Oui!" makes it acceptable. >

this is going to be impossible to enforce unless they erect a "great wall" type of firewall like china (which they won't and isn't even 100% effective)      
Laws that are unenforceable are fucking useless. How can so much ignorance be possible on supposedly qualified lawmakers? >

Hehehe erect. >

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Gonna go on a limb and assume the company that will have to implement this is linked to a sitting politician in some way. >

Oh, nothing like that at all.  Their spouse merely sits on their board of directors for tax advice. >

It is so easy though. Enforce passeport authentication to access service provider internet. Decline this into as many controls as you want based on race genre nationality age etc >

That's insane. I grew up in France and use to watch porn on public television on France 5 >

Ah yes alotof people born in 1904 January 26th is suddenly going to come out of the blue >

Cant they use a vpn >

Thought the same thing. Maybe it's for the purpose of selling/rolling out their digital certification app infrastructure, maybe it's theater to appear they're doing something despite being aware of the workaround, maybe they're confident that even with the workaround that a significant number of people will still be impeded from access, maybe it's a big data collection and surveillance scheme, maybe maybe maybe >

Its so dumb though you telling me a 15 yr old in france can fuck physically but cant watch porn. >

Wait do you mean can legally consent in general? Wow, I knew they had early drinking age but damn. >

Hmmph its 15 so this bill makes no sense >

Slippery slope. >

What a pointless waste of money. A simple vpn will easily get around this and 12 year olds will most definitely be able to figure this out >

Figured this out twenty years ago while torrenting.. so yeah, not really effective >

Soon the average frenchman will work till they are 80 and have to wear a government gopro on their forehead you guys need the firemen to fight back again. >

Is there any evidence for the proposition that a 17 year old, who searches out PornHub on their own, is being harmed by the visit? >

Or harmed in any way that it wouldn't an 18 year old? >

But what will the kids do before smoking? >

Freedom at its finest.
Good job, France.  Yet another country that doesn't get it. >

The harm of this will be massive and any data breach will almost certainly result in suicides and extortion. 
Trade in stolen porn site log in details exists, is pretty big and often form part of sextortion campaigns as well as simple data breaches and hacking. I have a text file 1.5 million log in details for porn sites that i am going through, there is educators, government and even an FBI email address i am researching. This is one small combo list.
There is no other way to put it, this is state sanctioned voyeurism and spying, it harms children and adults and is not at all needed in any capacity. The risk is to huge to warrant its implementation, the trade of for some utopian "protection of children" is not enough for the lives this harmful policy will ruin and the people this stuff will kill. There is a reason why people don't like having their sexual interests public.  
The security would need to be top notch in order to prevent its abuse, France would need to prevent scam apps on the google app store (and ios) and it would need to ensure that any and all leaks, data breaches or hacks are treated with the upmost important. Even one scam website, a phishing could end up being fatal.  
This app will end up having a body count. >

This should be higher up >

Odd that the age to be able to view porn is 18, while the age to legally consent to sex is 15. >

I mean, good luck stopping teenagers from having sex. Half of all kids would have a record before turning 18 if you tried. >

Oh yea because stopping them from watching porn is going to work.
Like half the youtuber do vpn publicity they know where to go to get around it and if by some miracle they don't they will ask take 2 mins to bypass it. >

I never suggested it would. Teens who want to watch it will have no problem getting around any measures put forth to stop them. I was saying this law is as useless as trying to stop/criminalize teens for having sex. >

knowing the french they'll be a riot in 3,2,1 >

Pornhub is where I got my sex ed >

So they're blocking Tik Tok too? >

I don't feel like you can put the age of consent at 15 with no Romeo and Juliet clause, have constant people arguing to lower it and then also decide porn is for over 18. I'm American, so honestly it's not my system. But they don't see the hypocrisy of saying "adults can fuck teenagers all they want but teens can't watch porn." I personally find their age of consent disgusting, a Romeo and Juliet clause would make it better for me but I understand Europeans think nothing of hebephilia as gross as I think it fucking is. This isn't about all that though. It's about treating teens as sexually adult in one context but not the other. They are old enough to have sex at 15 but not watch porn? You guys are ridiculous. >

They probably meant “with” minors. >

I’m gonna see pregnancies rise possibly only source is my ass >

and will NEVER happen
ANYWHERE