Even after three years, German media organizations have not given up the fight against xHamster. Now a new attempt is made in the name of youth protection. One sees oneself “forced by media law” to start all over again.

xHamster: youth protection dare new blocking attempt

The now three year old Fight of German youth protection against the porn platform goes to the next round. After previous blocking attempts by xHamster were overturned with the simplest of tricks, the State Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia is not giving up. Contact has now been made with the Cypriot authorities again, as xHamster is based on the island. In Cyprus there is now a legitimate contact for the first time.

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Marco Kratzenberg

The aim of the media authorities is to continue to expand the porn portal encourage more youth protection. Children and young people continue to have free access to explicit videos and photos, which contradicts German youth protection regulations.

The State Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia also complains about this lack of assertiveness legal bases. Tobias Schmid, director of the state institute, explains that it is difficult “to go into a shooting with a knife”.

Instead of concentrating on blocking orders for domains as before, could copyright may be more promising. According to Schmid, it makes no sense if you have to start “again from the beginning” despite the identical content (source: mirror).

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