CNA Staff, Dec 22, 2023 / 10:35 am
The European Union (EU) this week announced that Pornhub, along with two other high-traffic pornography sites, must comply with major age verification and safety laws passed last year by the governing body.
The European Commission, which proposes and enforces laws for the EU, said in a press release that it had designated Pornhub a very large online platform (VLOP), rendering it bound by certain enhanced provisions of the 2022 Digital Services Act (DSA).
The ruling means that Pornhub will have to “adopt specific measures to empower and protect users online, including minors” on its website. Those measures include “age verification tools” and mitigation measures to “address risks linked to the dissemination of illegal content online,” including child pornography.
The commission noted that “all online platforms” in the EU must “provide user-friendly mechanisms to allow users or entities to notify illegal content,” “promptly inform law enforcement authorities” of illegal material on their sites, “redesign their systems to ensure a high level of privacy, security, and safety of minors,” and implement numerous other safety rules and content restrictions.