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Keeping kids safe online is a top priority.

Today, the Commission has preliminarily found porn platforms Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX, and XVideos in breach of the Digital Services Act for allowing minors to access adult content.

We’ve also launched investigation into Snapchat under doubts that the platform has failed to adequately protect minors from harmful content, grooming, and illegal products like drugs and vapes. We also suspect that they have failed to verify users age sufficiently.

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Henna Virkkunen 6d ago

We say this loud and clear: online platforms are responsible for protecting minors, and they need to do more to deliver on this responsibility.

The full press releases:

🔗 https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_722
🔗 https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_723

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Fredrik Björeman 6d ago

@HennaVirkkunen How is that to be done without handing these platforms our identities and ability to track us? Seems the last thing I want is for them to be trusted with anything.

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David 6d ago

There is a simple way: the EU establishes a «neutral point of identity» similar to the passage of Spanish administration https://pasarela.clave.gob.es/. Just the regulation enabling it have to make sure it doesn't store data on which sites you visit.

This service only has to respond to the provider's request affirmatively or negatively given legal conditions to access its site.

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Ministerio de Asuntos Económicos y Transformación Digital

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Fredrik Björeman

@david @HennaVirkkunen That sounds reasonable-ish. I hope they don't build regulations which create a sea of very poor malicious compliance.