The popular and often criticized porn platform xHamster is facing new problems. In Germany, the portal is to be banned after there was no response to demands for more protection of minors.

xHamster: Porn portal could be blocked

xHamster is one of the most popular porn platforms and has been criticized for a long time. The operators are accused of, among other things, not being forceful enough against illegal content proceed. The German Commission for the Protection of Young People in the Media (KJM) also sees omissions, since access for people under the age of 18 is possible without any difficulty. The portal did not comply with requests from the State Media Authority in North Rhine-Westphalia. The KJM has now found the xHamster hosting provider (source: Computer picture).

If the hosting provider should remain inactive now and continue to make illegal content accessible not only under German law, then the next step could be a blocking order issued will. In practice, this decision is so noticeable that xHamster would no longer be accessible with a German IP address. It can be assumed that the portal will subsequently take legal action against the decision.

The KJM advocates stronger regulation of websites that are harmful to minors and has proposed a possible Age verification a total of 39 overall concepts and 31 models were presented. Foreign porn portals generally do not use any of these options to determine the age of German visitors.

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xHamster: Operators are from Russia

For a long time it was unclear who was behind xHamster. Only recently it emerged that the portal largely belongs to the IT company Wisebits and that the operator is based in Russia. the opaque company structure from xHamster ranges from Cyprus to the Caribbean.

The portal is under criticism, among other things, because of videos and photos, which are obvious without the consent of all parties involved were published. According to the xHamster terms of use, the upload of such recordings is prohibited, but is still widely represented on the platform.