EC Imposes Strict Content Rules On Adult Sites (imahe-pixabay)
The European Commission has imposed strict content rules on adult content companies Pornhub, Stripchat and XVideos. These sites will have to undergo risk assessment reports and will have to take measures to address the systemic risks linked to their services to comply with new EU online content rules.
The announcement was made on Friday by the European Commission. The three companies were designated as very large online platforms last December under the Digital Service Act (DSA) which requires them to do more to remove illegal and harmful content on their platforms.
The specific obligation listed includes “submitting risk assessment reports to the commission, putting in place mitigation measures to address systemic risks linked to the provision of their services, complying with additional transparency obligations, including to ads, and providing access to data for researchers.
If there are any DSA breaches, the companies will have to risk fines as much as 6% of their global annual turnover.
“The DSA makes designated Very Large Online Platforms accountable for ensuring safer, more transparent online spaces. They must identify and address in an effective manner systemic risks, particularly when it comes to mitigating risks to the well-being of minors, amplification of illegal content, recommender systems, etc,” the statement read.
The sites will have to comply with these DSA obligations, among the strictest, on April 21 and XVideos on April 23, the EU Executive said.
“These specific obligations include submitting risk assessment reports to the Commission, putting in place mitigation measures to address systemic risks linked to the provision of their services,” it said in a statement.
In addition to that the companies will also have to meet additional transparency obligations, including those to ads, and providing access to data for researchers.
The commission in the statement also added that they are carefully monitoring the compliance with DSA obligations by these platforms in order to protect minors from harmful content and to address the dissemination of illegal content.
