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From 25 July 2025, pornography services reachable in the United Kingdom must operate "highly effective" age checks. Ofcom has now clarified how general online safety duties are being operationalised in the UK through specific expectations on product design and presentation. It explains its approach to evaluating compliance where any visibility precedes verification. In short, where an age check sits is not cosmetic. If pornographic material is visible before the age verification check, the duty may already have been breached. The statutory basis is the Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA)....

Noting that illegal products, in particular childlike sex dolls but also certain weapons and medicines banned from online sale, had been reported as being offered for sale on the Shein online sales platform, designated as a "very large platform" within the meaning of the DSA by the European Commission, the French state summoned the platform's Irish operator and the main companies providing access to it in France before the president of the Paris Court of First Instance under the fast-track procedure. Its principal request was that, under Article 6-3 of the Law...

On 1 January 2026, Hungarian mobile operators Magyar Telekom, One Magyarország and Yettel Magyarország launched safe mobile internet access for minors. The new service, which is available free of charge to individual subscribers, prevents children from visiting Hungary's most popular pornographic websites on the mobile network. In May 2025, the Nemzeti Média- és Hírközlési Hatóság (National Media and Infocommunications Authority, NMHH) issued Decree 7/2025 on detailed rules relating to the secure service provided for minors. It...

In an application based on Articles 6, 6(3) and 6(4) of the Law of 21 June 2004 on confidence in the digital economy (LCEN), ARCOM brought an action before the president of the Paris Court of first instance in an expedited procedure on the merits, requesting that the main internet service providers (Orange, Free, Free Mobile, SFR, SFR Fibre, Bouygues Telecom) be ordered to take all appropriate measures to prevent access from French territory to the watchpeopledie.tv website. It maintains that this site is dedicated to the broadcasting of images of deliberate attacks on the integrity of the person...

On 4 December 2025, the Commission on Television and Radio of the Republic of Armenia (CTR) adopted a decision to discontinue an administrative proceeding against Shark LLC, the broadcaster of the television programme 5th Channel, in connection with the coverage of a tragic event involving children. The issue at stake was whether the manner in which minors were shown in the coverage of a child’s death complied with the legal safeguards for the protection of children in audiovisual media. The case followed an exercise involving the monitoring of a programme broadcast on 5 November...