The European Sex Workers’ Rights Alliance, a lobby for sex workers such as escorts, is among the thirty NGOs that have written a letter to the European Commission demanding that porn sites be included in the list of online platforms that include porn sites. It is a “systemic risk” for companies. This list currently includes social networks such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok, which are considered potential carriers of illegal and harmful content, from fake news to terrorist hate speech to child pornography.
The list serves to identify online platforms with more than 45 million monthly users in the European Union that have been subject to the new regulation on digital services (DSA) since August, which imposes heavy fines on companies that do not take adequate countermeasures to prevent this regulation. dissemination of illegal and dangerous content. The list also includes search engines such as Google Search and Bing, and e-commerce sites such as Amazon, AliExpress and Zalando.
Porn sites have been removed from the list for now, although platforms such as Xvideos admit to having more than 160 million monthly users in the EU. There is suspicion that even popular sites like Pornhub and XHamster, which claim 33 million monthly users, or YouPorn, which claims only seven million, actually have a much larger user base. Hence the demand of 30 NGOs, including AccessNow and the aforementioned European Sex Workers’ Rights Alliance: Brussels verifies the real users of porn sites and includes them in the list of systemic risk platforms. The organizations believe “these platforms are actively trying to avoid their responsibilities and avoid being held accountable for the systemic risks present on their platforms,” Euractiv reported.
The European Commission is expected to review its list in the coming months. It is important for NGOs to target those who spread sexual abuse or deepfake images on porn sites, avoiding stigmatizing the users of these sites or the sex workers involved.
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