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Amended by the Loi visant à sécuriser et réguler l'espace numérique (Law aiming to secure and regulate the digital space) of 21 May 2024, Articles 10 et seq. of the Loi pour la confiance dans l'économie numérique (Law on confidence in the digital economy) gave the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique (French audiovisual regulator – ARCOM) the power to impose financial penalties against and block or delist pornographic websites that remain accessible to minors in violation of Article 227-24...

The AdWiseOnline campaign was launched on 6 January 2025. It is the result of a partnership between the DG CONNECT and DG JUST policy frameworks, European Safer Internet Centres and European Consumer Centres, within the framework of the Better Internet for Kids (BIK) initiative. The campaign aims to raise awareness of manipulative practices and children's consumer rights by informing parents, guardians, educators and policy makers about specific manipulative digital marketing, gaming and consumer practices targeting children and young people especially. It focuses on in-game marketing tactics,...

Part of the Public Health Alcohol Act (PHAA – the Act) came into force on 10 January 2025, seven years after it was signed into law on 17 October 2018. In particular, section 19 of the Act introduces a watershed ban for alcohol advertisement. In this sense, alcohol advertisements cannot be shown on television between 3 a.m. and 9 p.m., nor can they be broadcast on the radio on a weekday between 3 p.m. and 10 a.m the following day. These new measures were among certain revisions introduced into the Act, and which followed the introduction of a ban on alcohol advertising in or on a...

On 13 January 2025, the Ukrainian media regulator – the National Council on Broadcasting – called on media actors to observe ethical and journalistic standards when covering the Russian-Ukrainian war. It recalled that, in early 2025, a number of Ukrainian media and media actors disseminated a video taken from the Russian propaganda channel on Telegram. It was a graphic depiction of hand-to-hand combat between between a Ukrainian soldier and a Russian storm trooper, as a result of which the Ukrainian died. In addition, local journalists published information about the identity of the...

On 23 January 2025, the UK’s communications regulator, Ofcom, imposed a GBP 7 000 fine on UK-based video-sharing platform (VSP) MintStars for failing to adequately protect minors from explicit content. The regulator determined that the platform’s safeguards, relying on user self-declaration and disclaimers, were insufficient under the Communications Act 2003. Ofcom’s investigation and findings Earlier on 27 February 2024, Ofcom launched an investigation into MintStars to determine whether it had complied with its statutory obligations under Part 4B of the Communications...