A website known as xHamster is being banned in Germany to help protect underage children from sexual exploitation.
"Germany’s Commission for Youth Media Protection decided unanimously last week to impose a network ban on xHamster—the most visited porn website in the country," says Exodus Cry on Instagram. "Last year, Germany introduced a new law requiring porn sites to verify the age of their users and this ban is showing that the law will, in fact, be enforced."
The Commission for Youth Media Protection is a German state organization that is intended to regulate the exposure of children to mass media.
German bureaucrat Tobias Schmid, who has been championing this cause says, "This is not about freedom of expression, but about a business model that uses an illegal practice."
Exodus Cry is a Christian organization that fights human trafficking in three ways. They focus on shifting culture, changing laws, and reaching out to those caught in modern-day slavery.
"Online age verification laws have been difficult to get off the ground, but momentum is picking up. It's encouraging to see more and more countries introduce laws to hold porn sites accountable for recklessly feeding kids videos that include incest, rape, and the abuse of children. For too long, these sites have had absolutely no accountability and children are the ones who suffer."
In December of 2021, the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) proposed measures to fight pornography. Just a few months before in September, after two children's associations filed an action before the Paris Court of Justice against France's leading internet providers, French judiciary are deciding whether or not to block the main pornography websites in the country.
'We're calling the US to introduce laws that compel all porn sites to require ID-based age verification for its viewers. Every day that there are not protections in place, children are stumbling upon content that is deeply traumatizing them and derailing their lives."
In Canada a bill was introduced last May in the House of Commons that will bring more severe penalties to people who distribute pornographic material of minors or without the consent of adults in the material.
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