Porn sites Pornhub, XVideos, and Stripchat face stricter requirements to verify the ages of their users after being officially designated as “Very Large Online Platforms” (VLOPs) under the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA).
Being designated as a VLOP means the sites will also have to conduct risk assessments and mitigate the spread of illegal content like child sexual abuse material and deepfake pornography.
Pornhub has said it had 33 million months users, but its inclusion on the list of new VLOPs means that the EU doesn’t buy the company’s self-reported numbers.
“When asked to disclose the total of their monthly users… some big porn platforms have presented surprisingly small numbers that have allowed them to temporarily elude the designation as VLOPs,” the group wrote in its open letter.
Digital civil rights group Access Now took particular issue with Pornhub’s numbers, calling its 33 million European user figure “unlikely” in the context of traffic analysis from SimilarWeb that suggests it averages over two billion visits a month.
Although VLOPs have to comply with the DSA’s strictest regulations, today’s press release from the EU notes that “all online platforms and search engines” have to abide by a general set of DSA rules like offering a mechanism to notify them about illegal content on their service, and avoid targeting users with advertising based on profiling of sensitive data like ethnic origin or sexual orientation.
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Porn sites Pornhub, XVideos, and Stripchat face stricter requirements to verify the ages of their users after being officially designated as “Very Large Online Platforms” (VLOPs) under the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA).
Being designated as a VLOP means the sites will also have to conduct risk assessments and mitigate the spread of illegal content like child sexual abuse material and deepfake pornography.
Pornhub has said it had 33 million months users, but its inclusion on the list of new VLOPs means that the EU doesn’t buy the company’s self-reported numbers.
“When asked to disclose the total of their monthly users… some big porn platforms have presented surprisingly small numbers that have allowed them to temporarily elude the designation as VLOPs,” the group wrote in its open letter.
Digital civil rights group Access Now took particular issue with Pornhub’s numbers, calling its 33 million European user figure “unlikely” in the context of traffic analysis from SimilarWeb that suggests it averages over two billion visits a month.
Although VLOPs have to comply with the DSA’s strictest regulations, today’s press release from the EU notes that “all online platforms and search engines” have to abide by a general set of DSA rules like offering a mechanism to notify them about illegal content on their service, and avoid targeting users with advertising based on profiling of sensitive data like ethnic origin or sexual orientation.
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