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Blocks on German porn sites put spotlight on shifting age-assurance landscape

By Júlia Tar ( May 16, 2025, 15:17 GMT | Comment) -- Germany’s court-ordered blocks of Pornhub and YouPorn over missing age-verification measures highlight growing regulatory pressure on adult platforms — and test the limits of enforcement under the EU’s Digital Services Act. While the DSA requires very large platforms to assess and mitigate risks to minors, it restricts blocking orders to cases involving serious threats to life or safety. The decision also comes amid mounting industry support for age checks at the device or app store level — a model that would shift implementation away from individual platforms.German courts have upheld state media regulators’ blocking orders against two major pornography websites, Pornhub and YouPorn, over their failure to implement an age-verification mechanism at the end of April (see here)....

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