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Internet service providers (ISPs) in Germany may soon be forced to apply DNS blocks to stop users from accessing porn sites like Pornhub, xHamster, and YouPorn. German authorities, led by a State Media Authority director named Tobias Schmid, have been pushing for large porn sites like those previously mentioned to implement age verification of the upload-your-ID-type. These demands are coupled with the threat of bans if age verification isn\u2019t implemented \u2013 which it hasn\u2019t yet been.<\/p>\n

Germany to porn sites: Implement age verification or be blocked<\/h2>\n

The German authorities are specifically targeting a handful of larger porn sites to push age verification \u2013 or blocks \u2013 on. It all came to a head when internet service providers (ISPs) in Germany including Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom refused to set up voluntary DNS blocks, and now German authorities are in the process of legally forcing it on ISPs. All this, to pressure certain porn sites to implement age verification technology \u2013 which the UK<\/a> has already shown just won\u2019t fly. The thing is, such actions wouldn\u2019t reduce access to porn for anyone. The Vice President of xHamster, Alex Hawkins, explained to Motherboard<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cProtecting minors from adult content found online is a positive idea. And one that everybody should stand behind. But what is happening here instead is an attempt to censor a few of the big adult industry market players, leaving hundreds of smaller adult websites unsupervised. We have been selectively asked to restrict access by implementing AV [Age Verification]. What would a user do in this case? A user would simply choose another free (not subject to AV) website. Will such an approach protect minors? Hardly. The majority of users would opt for another adult website without AV.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Even in a possibly near dystopian future where popular porn sites like Pornhub are blocked by German ISPs, the myriad smaller ones would still be accessible. Even if those were somehow blocked \u2013 and there\u2019s little indication that they would be \u2013 porn would still be available.\u00a0 Emily van der Negal, the author of the book Sex and Social Media, told Motherboard:<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t stop people from being horny. Pornhub doesn\u2019t own porn. People, including teenagers, will find somewhere to access adult material. If there\u2019s anything we\u2019ve learned in the past few years, it\u2019s that porn will always find a way.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As graffiti art with 4 numbers and 4 punctuation points has shown<\/a>, DNS blocks aren\u2019t that hard to bypass. Even if Germany forces ISPs to upgrade the blocks, VPN use can allow German netizens to use the internet from a more free jurisdiction. Make no mistake, these attempts to make porn sites play ball are tangible steps down the slippery slope of censorship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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