PARIS — French Secretary of State for Childhood Charlotte Caubel has begun advocating for a mandatory age verification system where access to pornographic websites would be granted exclusively to debit card holders.
Caubel told the National Assembly on Tuesday that her solution is a “pragmatic” decision to immediately implement something that could act act as “a filter” for whatever website the French government would deem “a pornographic website.”
It is unclear if Caubel’s proposal would also block access to anyone without a debit card to platforms like Twitter and Reddit that currently tolerate adult content.
France’s credit system, unlike the U.S.’s, does not have a clear distinction between credit and debit cards. Any card that uses the EFT networks is generically referred to as a “carte bleue,” after a now discontinued local competitor to Visa and Mastercard, which is the term Caubel used.
Caubel vowed to “do things very seriously” to implement some form of age verification, but was vague on specifics, telling the lawmakers that the debit card would be a “filter” charging “zero or one Euro” to allow access to what she termed pornographic sites.
“This would already be a filter,” Caubel said. “We have been opposed by saying that this would not be a perfect filter, but if we can already protect 30 or 40% [of minors], let’s be pragmatic. My child, when he uses his carte bleue, I get an alert. I can see if it’s being used on YouPorn or on McDonalds.”
Raising her voice in a public performance of indignation Macron’s minister alleged that France “is the fourth country in the world in the production of child pornography. Until when do we have to wait to open our eyes? It destroys our children from within.”
“Let’s stop using tweezers — yes, it destroys our children from the inside. And it prevents breaking the chain of sexual violence that we continue to feed,” Caubel continued, conflating CSAM with legally produced porn and echoing the sensationalistic report about “the infernal porn industry” produced by French Senators and SWERF organizations last month.
“There is an opposition today between the freedom to go to adult porn sites and the trauma created for our children,” Caubel continued. “This is a matter of values. Let’s consider them together and see which ones we defend.”
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