Christians in France ask Macron to ban ‘free porn’ campaigns during the Covid-19 crisis

Christians in France are asking President Emmanuel Macron to ban the marketing campaigns of big pornography websites such as Pornhub.

Taking advantage of the confinement and the rise of internet consumption, many platforms are giving free access to their websites, attracting many new consumers, including children.

The letter, signed by seven French organisations, asks the authorities to act in line with “international agreements” and ban any online marketing campaigns offering free access to pornography during the Covid-19 crisis. They go further to ask that these websites would be “definitively closed in the short term”.

According to the initiative, “immediate measures and strong sanctions” should be taken “to protect children against access to pornography on the internet and to fight against pedo-crimes”.

The signatories demand that “judicial investigations are opened: concerning the video contents of Pornhub and other sites, the owners of the platforms, and their implication in the uncontrolled dissemination of videos showing victims of trafficking, sexual abuse and minors”.

This pornographic companies should be “held accountable” for the “exploitation” and crimes committed against people who unwillingly appear on their website.

The letter is signed by leaders of the Protestant Evangelical Committee for Human Dignity, the Salvation Army, the CNEF-Solidarité, the Association of Protestant Families, the Association of Catholic Families, Micah France and Planète Enfants et Développement. The letter can be downloaded here.

The document was not only sent to President Macron but to other 25 political leaders in France as well.

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Organisations such as Exodus Cry and anti-trafficking activist Laila Mickelwait have denounced for months the lack of control of criminal contents uploaded on porn websites.

More than 800,000 people have signed an online petition to shut pornography giant Pornhub.