Pornhub, Stripchat and XVideos will need to abide by the European Union’s strictest digital regulations after they were designated “very large online platforms” (VLOPs) by the EU executive on Wednesday.
The three adult content companies join the likes of Facebook, Instagram, Google and Elon Musk’s X on the bloc’s list of platforms with more than 45 million average monthly users in the EU.
Brussels will now be able to police the sites’ compliance with its strictest set of rules under the landmark Digital Services Act (DSA), including on protecting minors and addressing the dissemination of illegal content.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Pornhub, Stripchat and XVideos will need to abide by the European Union’s strictest digital regulations after they were designated “very large online platforms” (VLOPs) by the EU executive on Wednesday.
The three adult content companies join the likes of Facebook, Instagram, Google and Elon Musk’s X on the bloc’s list of platforms with more than 45 million average monthly users in the EU.
Brussels will now be able to police the sites’ compliance with its strictest set of rules under the landmark Digital Services Act (DSA), including on protecting minors and addressing the dissemination of illegal content.
The move is an important step in Brussels’ bid to crack down on a notoriously deregulated industry, amid increasing concerns about lax age verification mechanisms and the circulation of child sexual abuse material and AI-generated revenge porn.
After initially refusing to publish its user numbers in February, French-owned XVideos confirmed in June that its monthly visits amounted to a staggering 160 million, and did not contest its designation as a VLOP.
A French bill passed in October allows the government to block pornographic sites that do not have sufficient age and identity verification measures to prevent minors from accessing their content.
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Wow… Just wow. I am convinced everyday eu is getting dumber and dumber.
So the little web companies still operating in the EU will left and European citizens will need to use VPN services.
There already is a state-funded porn film in Germany:
https://lustery.com/pov/ffmm-straight-queer-doggy-bj-oral-orgasm-squirting-royale-en
It has won awards. There is a version of it on tube8 that doesnt require registration.
Ah yes, all those little web companies who have been labelled “very large online platforms”, wont someone speak up for the poor little billion dollar businesses?
Meh, just block the EU, with a link to NordVPN.
These EU regulators need to understand that whatever firewall rules they establish for their teenage children will be the same rules implemented on the firewall at their nursing home.
I don’t think there will be any effective age verification systems, the law itself says that there is an exception to protect fundamental rights to privacy. Someone tries to do this every month and it invariably fails.