Pornhub and two other adult sites are suing the European Union over a landmark digital content law, the Digital Services Act, which imposes age verification and other obligations on large platforms. The European Commission last year named Pornhub, Xvideos and Stripchat as a category of “very large online platform” under the act, which includes obligations such as age verification measures for minors and creating a library of adverts published on their sites. Companies that fall foul of the law can be fined up to six percent of their global turnover. This lawsuit follows similar legal challenges by online retailers Amazon and Zalando.

  • katy ✨
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    53 months ago

    so basically a bunch of adult sites are mad that they now have a responsibility to protect underage viewers from visiting their sites

    • @SoupBrick@yiffit.net
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      3 months ago
      1. Porn websites should not have to do a parent’s job
      2. They would have to either host a metric shit ton of personal IDs on their servers or have direct access to that database. I would absolutely not be willing to entrust my ID to any site that was not a government site.

      If you are interested in seeing why this is a bad idea, I’d recommend looking up the KOSA bill (US version of this) and watching arguments against it.

      • katy ✨
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        123 months ago

        thank you, ill look this bill up tonight and read more about it!

    • @honey_im_meat_grinding
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      There hasn’t been any scientific consensus change on whether porn is actually harmful to view for underage viewers, much less how much harm at various ages (i.e. should we lower it from 18, or raise it). Meaning, anyone who outright claims it is, is likely falling for populist rhetoric feeding off our cultural aversion to nudity and sex, not scientific truth.

      It gets even worse when you consider how instrumental porn is to us queer folks who often learn more about their sexuality through the medium, esp. when you consider consumption rates of queer folks vs straight folks. Or when you consider the queer folks who use sex work to earn money because they’re treated worse in other jobs simply for being queer.

      Let this sink in for a second: it took us less than a decade of anti-porn laws being proposed to being implemented without scientific consensus (in the UK, Germany, the EU now, Canada is currently doing the same…). Meanwhile we dragged our feet for decades on climate change and still are. That alone should make this whole trend smell fishy, like it’s being done with ulterior motives.

      • @AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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        33 months ago

        Shouldn’t it be for all web sites? It’s logical when you think about it. After all you never know what’s on there.