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When the Paris Court of Appeal recently blocked four pornographic websites in France for lack of a proper age verification system, the two child online protection non-profits that pushed for the blocking may have thought they had scored a major victory. But, in one case, it turned out to be a bit of self-possession.
like l’Informé Reportstargeted the non-profit organizations Iciporno, Mrsexe, Tukif, and xHamster. Their complaints listed the sites’ web addresses – but for xHamster they put “fr.xhamster.com“, referring to the site’s French subdomain.
As a result, the court ordered the blocking offr.xhamster.com“- including”fr.” prefix. This means that ISPs have complied with the order and blocked xHamster at the DNS level – but only with “fr.“Prefix…
So xHamster remains accessible in France… until the regulator, Arcom, finds a way to close this embarrassing loophole.
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