Overview

• The European Commission formally opened investigations on May 27 into Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX and XVideos to assess compliance with DSA child protection mandates.
• Preliminary findings indicate that all four sites rely on single-click self-declarations without effective age verification or risk mitigation tools.
• Stripchat was removed from the DSA’s very large online platform category after its monthly EU user count fell below 45 million, but the probe will still cover its prior operations.
• Under the DSA, confirmed breaches can trigger fines of up to 6% of a platform’s global annual turnover and even EU-wide bans for repeated violations.
• The commission is also preparing a privacy-preserving age-verification app for rollout this summer and coordinating national regulators to oversee smaller adult content sites.