Major adult sites Pornhub, XVideos, and Stripchat are designated as ``ultra-large online platforms'' in the EU and are subject to regulation along with Wikipedia and Facebook
On December 20, 2023, the European Commission, the European Union's regulatory authority, classified major adult sites Pornhub, XVideos, and Stripchat as 'Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs)' under the EU's
Commission designs second set of VLOPs under the DSA
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The VLOP designation applies to platforms with more than 45 million users, and has so far included Facebook, Wikipedia, and TikTok. Similarly, the three adult sites designated this time have a large number of users, and according to officials from the EU regulator, 160 million users visit the site per month on XVideos alone. .
Each adult site designated as a VLOP will be required to comply with DSA regulations by February 2024, and will be required to ``introduce a system that can verify the age of users'' and ``child abuse'' by April 2024. It is necessary to take measures to prevent the spread of illegal content, such as deep fake pornography, by deleting it, and to ensure transparency, such as publishing reports on content moderation.
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Failure to comply with these obligations will result in a fine of up to 6% of each adult site's worldwide turnover.
Thierry Breton of the European Commission said: ``I have always considered creating a safer online environment for children to be a top enforcement priority under the DSA.'' In addition, Margrethe Vestager from the EU said, ``We welcome the designation of Pornhub, XVideos, and Stripchat as VLOPs.With this decision, each site will be subject to increased scrutiny of their algorithms and processes, and the transparency of sites will be increased.'' 'This will increase,' he said, expressing his expectations.
In response to this VLOP designation, a Pornhub spokesperson countered, saying, ``Pornhub has only 33 million monthly users in the EU, which does not meet the 45 million threshold for VLOP designation.'' Masu. In addition, XVideos and Stripchat have not released any comments.
Meanwhile, NGO groups such as European Digital Rights, the Center of Democracy and Technology, and the European Sex Workers' Rights Alliance stated in October 2023 that ``major adult sites are significantly underreporting the number of monthly users, so The government has published a letter (PDF file) pointing out that the government is trying to evade the designation.
Access Now, a digital civil rights organization, focused on Pornhub's reported ``33 million monthly users,'' and said, ``Traffic analysis on SimilarWeb shows that there are an average of more than 2 billion accesses per month worldwide.'' 'Since this has been confirmed, it is impossible for the number of monthly users in the EU to be 33 million.'
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