The EU has designated Pornhub, XVideos, and Stripchat as "Very Large Online Platforms" (more than 45 million average users a month in the EU) under the Digital Services Act. As a result, these sites "have to conduct risk assessments and mitigate the spread of illegal content like child sexual abuse material and deepfake pornography", as well as "transparency requirements like being subject to external audits, publishing transparency reports on content moderation decisions, and providing publicly available data to researchers". Will be interesting to see what approach they take to age verification as the Australian eSafety Commissioner is pushing for it, Peter Dutton is all for it and the government is still on the fence.
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