EU charges Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX and XVideos; platforms face fines up to 6% of turnover
Platform compliance teams must block minors' access to adult content or face 6% turnover fines
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EU has charged Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX and XVideos with breaching the Digital Services Act for allowing minors to access pornographic content, exposing each platform to administrative fines up to 6% of global annual turnover.
Why it matters
The Digital Services Act binds large online platforms to implement robust, privacy-preserving and effective measures that prevent minors from accessing pornographic content. EU regulators are using DSA investigative powers to assess whether those safeguards exist and to pursue administrative enforcement when they judge measures to be inadequate.
Implications
- — Compliance teams at large online platforms hosting adult content must immediately compile and retain demonstrable evidence of privacy-preserving age-access controls — failure to produce such evidence exposes the platform to DSA breach proceedings and administrative fines up to 6% of global annual turnover.
- — Product and content-moderation teams at large online platforms hosting adult content must immediately deploy effective technical controls that prevent underage access to pornographic material — inability to show active safeguards risks being charged under the DSA and penalised administratively.
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