Paris, (EFE) Minister council.
The text also includes measures to prevent Internet fraud and new tools that allow the closure of certain media outlets that spread false news.
“We propose to act more firmly and quickly by giving the Arcom (Audiovisual and Internet Communication Regulation Authority) the power to block and exclude from search engines porn websites that do not verify age,” said the minister in charge. of the Internet, Jean-Noël Barrot.
Two million minors watch porn in France
According to the Executive’s calculations, there are some two million minors who watch porn online every month in France, which, according to specialists, is worrying because it shapes the way boys and girls view sex, often promoting macho behavior.
The text comes after the Government has been unsuccessfully asking these pages for some time to put filters in place to prevent minors from accessing online pornography.
Increased sentences for convicted persons
Likewise, the bill provides for increasing the penalty against people convicted of cyberbullying, separating them from the networks from the current six months to twelve.
Internet fraud, which often consists of messages to mobile phones that have a link that pretends to be a public body, such as Social Security, will be combated by a “universal and free filter” that each user can download and that will inform about the campaigns malicious that circulate.
Close of websites with fake news
The text also contemplates that Arcom can close websites that contain false news. Currently, Sputnik and Russia Today, two Russian state media, are banned from France following the sanctions decreed by the EU for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.