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.
So, they expect users to provide a piece of ID to access porn? What a massive breach of privacy. Imagine a data leak, they will be able to tell who whatches what kind of porn. Do you want the world to know all your kinks? And I absolutely do not trust a porn site to keep my ID safe and secure. This is just a way to get porn sites out of EU because they know that no one will be giving their info even if you are over 18.
In many of the conservative-run US states this is already the case
I’d trust Pornhub with my data over my government.
This is an issue for parents, not governments.
In some countries, parents elect governments
Yeah and the sky appears blue, who gives a fuck? It is a parent by parent decision not the decision of whoever got the most votes by parents to run the gov
Yeah I’ll take parental responsibility advice from a yank when your kids are more likely to reach adult literacy than witness a school shooting
How about you raise your own kids instead fucking up everything for the rest of us because you’re too lazy to set up restrictions on your kids phones.
My kids don’t have phones because it is possible to parent your children and also parent other people’s children 👍
This is great news for niche porn sites and unregulated communities, and especially for sexual predators who used to have such a difficult time luring impressionable teens onto their creepy discord porn sharing communities because it was so easy to assess regular porn but now teens will have to learn how to navigate the tangled web of obscure fetish communities just to see a boob…
Though if they handle it sensibly it does make sense to ensure they have robust systems in place to remove illegal content including revenge porn and leaked nudes.
The very foundation of the Internet is fault tolerance. These blocks will have the effect of forcing people to use other methods. To reroute the block.
E.g. instead of verifying my ID I’ll simply use a VPN or visit a site that doesn’t have age verification.
Age verification was quite common in the late-90s for major porn sites. They’d ask for credit card numbers to prove your age. Which spawned a mass of programs to generate fake CC numbers to trick CC validation. At 16 and new to the Internet it was trivial for me to circumvent age-restricted content. I just visited non-age ID sites or used a CC faker.
This stuff will never work.
It will just make it a pain it the arse for users.
At this point teens will be making their own AI stuff before this kind of laws get passed LMAO.
To all those “bad EU” commentators: the European regulations in this area make sense. Parents or individuals have no chance against those huge companies.
And most eu regulations helped the US citizens too. I just throw in apple and usb c
So the little web companies still operating in the EU will left and European citizens will need to use VPN services.
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?
Or you will have to watch the government sponsored porn.
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.
