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On 11 May 2022, the European Commission published a new strategy for a better internet for kids. Announced in March 2021 as part of the European Union strategy on the rights of the child, the strategy falls under one of the priorities of Ursula von der Leyen’s presidency of the Commission (2019-2024), entitled “A new push for European democracy”. Although it is not legislative in nature, the Commission’s communication is no less important, since it lists the different ways in which the Commission intends to better protect children and young people online by empowering them...

On 15 March 2022, the Rundfunkkommission (Broadcasting Commission) of the German Bundesländer, which acts as a joint discussion forum and decision-making body on media policy and related legal questions for the Heads of the State and Senate Chancelleries, adopted proposals to reform the Jugendmedienschutz-Staatsvertrag (Interstate Treaty on the Protection of Minors in the Media – JMStV). The proposals were published in the form of a discussion draft and a consultation procedure was opened. The reforms, which focus in particular on the improvement of technical measures to protect young...

On 9 March 2022, the Commission on Journalistic Ethics, a board of 15 people elected by the signatories of the Code of Ethics of Ukrainian Journalists, adopted a decision on a complaint it had received, on 1 March 2022, from citizen Serhii Hordyshev in relation to a programme aired that day by Channel 5 (a private, national network). A newscast had text overlaying the video on the lower third, saying “Russian warship, go f*ck yourself”. The Commission reviewed the complaint without the respondent's presence and decided to dismiss it. Article 15 of the Code of Ethics of Ukrainian...

On 26 January 2022, the European Commission published an important proposal for a European Declaration on Digital Rights and Principles, designed to ensure that the rights and freedoms enshrined in the EU legal framework, and the European values expressed by the principles, are respected in the online environment. Importantly, the Declaration will take the form of a joint solemn declaration, to be signed by the European Parliament, the Council, and the Commission. The Commission has now invited the Parliament and Council to discuss the draft Declaration, and “endorse it at the highest level”...

On 2 March 2022, the Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz (Commission for the Protection of Minors in the Media – KJM), the German state media authorities’ central supervisory body for the protection of minors in private broadcasting and telemedia, issued a blocking order against the xHamster pornography portal on account of breaches of the Jugendmedienschutzstaatsvertrag (Interstate Treaty on the Protection of Minors in the Media – JMStV). As a result, the five largest German Internet providers were the first to be required to block access to the website “de.xhamster.com”...