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French court blocks popular porn site... subdomain

When the Paris Court of Appeal recently blocked four porn sites in France for not having a proper age verification system, the two online child protection nonprofits that had pushed for the blocks probably thought they’d scored a big victory. But in one case, it turned out to be a bit of a self-own.

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qaz
lemmy.world

TLDR: The complaint mentioned fr.xhamster.com so only the fr subdomain was blocked while xhamster.com remains available.

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Die Medieninkompetenz der Politiker hat auch was gutes.

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Senselessreply
feddit.org

Also it's only a DNS block, which is easily avoidable to begin with.

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reddthat.com

That is just...lol. this is what happens when tech illiterate old people dictate law on tech.

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What else can they do when the hosters are unreachable? Demand IP routing changes? I'm glad it's only DNS.

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lemmy.world

When I first read the headline, I thought the porn site was literally named "sub domain"... which is a pretty amazing name for a certain kind of porn site tbh.

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