The media authorities of the federal states have decided to block the porn portal xHamster. The decision was made unanimously, said the Commission for Youth Media Protection (KJM) of the media authorities on Thursday. The notifications with the request to block the offer “de.xhamster.com” for retrieval from Germany have already been sent to the five largest German network operators. They could still appeal against it.
The KJM found that the freely available pornographic offer from xHamster violated the protection of minors and was therefore illegal. The state agency for media NRW had the operators of the portal asked in vainone Age verification of users to introduce When asked, xHamster said network blocks were “far from an optimal solution”. Through them, young people would only switch to smaller sites where they would be exposed to more extreme content. The company is willing to work with the German authorities and use age verification. But this must be done across the industry.