Pornographic platforms Pornhub, Xvideos and Stripchat are now the center of attention of the European Commission. Which will increase their obligations.
All over the world, authorities are trying to regulate adult content platforms. And if the latest SREN law recently passed in France will not be able to apply to the giants of the sector, the European Union has tools that allow it to apply a certain amount of pressure. And this pressure will now apply to the major sites Pornhub, Stripchat and Xvidéos.
Three platforms scrutinized by Brussels
Business in Europe will now be a little more complicated for the Pornhub, Stripchat and Xvidéos platforms. The European Commission has in fact announced that the latter must comply with new obligations, such as the transmission of risk assessment reports.
In addition, they will be required to bring “ measures to mitigate systemic risks related to the delivery of their services. » Other obligations are mentioned, such as greater transparency in several sectors, such as advertisements, and making their data available to researchers.
The effects of DSA
And the European executive is serious, since these new obligations, announced last weekend, apply from Sunday April 21 for Pornhub and Stripchat, and from Tuesday April 23 for Xvidéos. The European Commission relies on the Digital Services Act to support its requests.
The text in fact provides for a special category, “very large online platforms”, which automatically impose more constraints on themselves to reduce as much as possible the illegal content that can be posted online. The platforms mentioned above thus join the list in which giants such as Facebook, Amazon, YouTube and TikTok are already present. The text also provides, in the event of violation of obligations, fines of up to 6% of a company’s overall annual turnover.
Source : Reuters
6