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AGCOM, the Italian Communications Authority and Digital Services Coordinator, has officially approved the regulation on age verification for access to online platforms providing adult content. The measure aims to ensure minors are effectively protected from the dangers of the internet. The new regulation, annexed to Resolution No. 96/25/CONS, sets out the compulsory procedures for video-sharing platforms and websites offering adult content in Italy to verify users’ age (so-called age assurance or age verification). This initiative enforces Article 13-bis of Legislative Decree No. 123 of...

At the end of March 2025, the Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz (Commission for the Protection of Minors in the Media – KJM) reviewed the youth protection programmes of the audiovisual streaming providers Sky Stream, WOW and O2 TV. Under the provisions of the German Jugendmedienschutzstaatsvertrag (state treaty on the protection of minors in the media – JMStV), it saw no reason to raise any serious objections and concluded that the Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle Multimedia-Diensteanbieter (voluntary self-monitoring body for multimedia service providers – FSM) had not exceeded...

On 27 March 2025, the UK’s communications regulator, Ofcom, imposed a financial penalty of GBP 1.05 million on Fenix International Limited, the company behind OnlyFans, following an investigation into its age assurance practices. The penalty stems from Fenix’s failure to provide accurate and complete responses to two statutory information requests concerning its age verification systems on the adult content platform. Following an investigation launched in May 2024 under the video-sharing platform (VSP) framework (introduced in 2020 by Part 4B of the Communications Act 2003), Ofcom...

On 4 March 2025, the Dutch Media Authority (Commissariaat voor de Media) published the draft 2025 Policy Rule on the qualification of on-demand commercial media services (draft 2025 Policy Rule). It will replace the previous policy rule adopted in 2022 (2022 Policy Rule). Both the 2022 Policy Rule as well as the draft 2025 Policy Rule are based on the Dutch Media Act of 2008 (the Act), which was amended in 2020 in the course of the implementation of revised Directive 2010/13/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 March 2010 on the coordination of certain provisions laid down by...

On 13 February 2025, the Verwaltungsgericht Potsdam (Potsdam Administrative Court) rejected an urgent appeal by the Brandenburg division of the Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany – AfD) party against an order by the Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg (Berlin-Brandenburg media authority – mabb) prohibiting the unrestricted distribution and making available of one of the party’s election commercials (case no. VG 11 L 74/25). During the Brandenburg state parliament election campaign in September 2024, AfD Brandenburg, assisted by AI, had created an election...