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Professor @LMU_Muenchen's @ifkw_lmu, Honorary Senior Research Fellow @CityJournalism & @VolkswagenSt Fellow.
Apr 5, 2022 12 tweets 11 min read
Our new @PolicyInternet study draws lessons from France on the regulation of Internet pornography. We show displacement effects, circumvention & legislative scope may limit the efficacy of French attempts to prevent <18s accessing online porn:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/po…

1/12 France’s Article 23 puts it at the forefront of attempts by democratic states to restrict young people's access to legal online pornography. Unlike UK's #OnlineSafetyBill or @mivillej's @SenateCA bill, France's Article 23 has already been enacted.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/po…

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