Pornographic sites: identity check via credit card compulsory to watch videos?
Last month, a senatorial report on pornography has exposed some chilling numbers. According to the latter, 36% of boys under the age of 13 have already been exposed to pornographic images. Even more alarming, it would seem that one in three young people under the age of 15 visits an “adult” site every month. So how to prevent the phenomenon from continuing? The government has an idea in mind.
Pornography: give your codes!
It is true that doing sex education based on watching pornographic content can slightly bias reality. At the question ” Bias, do you count? », the Secretary of State for Children Charlotte Caubel would like to answer « Zero. and spoke at the National Assembly on Tuesday before the Children’s Rights Delegation. ” We’re going to get things moving pretty seriously. » she thus asserted. His idea : request the obligation to enter credit card codes to access the content of adult sites. Although she is aware that this will not stop the smartest, she also knows that the impact will be very real on some.
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“We are opposed that it would not be a perfect filter, but already if we can protect 30 or 40% (of minors), let’s be pragmatic. My child, when he uses his credit card, I get an alert, I’ll see if it’s on Youporn or McDonalds. […] We are the fourth largest producer of child pornography images. […] How long do we have to wait to open our eyes? »
The secretary of state showed up very concernedconfident that pornography “destroys our children from within” and, above all, is one of the major arguments which helps not to break the “chain of sexual violence that we continue to feed” .
To see now if this proposal will go all the way and how the players in the adult sector will react to it.
Prohibiting minors from accessing pornographic sites is a legal provision, and when the law is clear, it must be implemented.
Whatever the means, it is the objective that counts: to protect our children. pic.twitter.com/hmayDRPhjo
—Charlotte Caubel (@CharlotteCaubel) October 26, 2022
