内容摘要：Members of the LGBTQ+ community model creations inspired by Lady Gaga’s style during a fashion show at the Central train station days in Rio de Janeiro, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Members of the LGBTQ+ community model creations inspired by Lady Gaga’s style during a fashion show at the Central train station days in Rio de Janeiro, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

The sweeping rulebook, also known as the DSA, requires internet companies and online platforms to do more to protect users under threat of hefty fines worth up to 6% of annual global revenue.The commission said protecting young users online is one of the DSA’s priorities and it will now carry out an in-depth investigation into the companies “as a matter of priority.”

The investigation will focus on the risks to protection of minors, including dangers associated with the lack of effective age verification measures.It said the porn sites have failed to put in place “appropriate and proportionate measures” to a high level safety and security for minors, especially when it comes to age verification tools designed to prevent minors from getting to adult content.The sites also lack “risk assessment and mitigation measures” of any negative effects, including on users mental and physical well-being, the commission said.

Pornhub, XNXX, Stripchat and XVideosas “very large online platforms” that face the highest level of scrutiny under the DSA. However the commission said it granted Stripchat’s request to be removed from the list because it didn’t have enough users.

Pornhub’s parent company Aylo said it’s aware of the investigation and is “fully committed” to ensuring online safety of minors.

“We will always comply with the law, but we hope that governments around the world will implement laws that protect the safety and security of users,” the company said in a statement. Aylo said that “the real solution for protecting minors and adults alike” is to verify users’ ages with individual devices rather than having websites do it.needs to start at the local level — especially in communities of color that may lack trust in the medical field.

It’s already happening in Brownsville, where the hospital fully reopened in 2022;who lack permanent legal status after their work hours; and in California, where

, who often work on farms or at meatpacking plants.“We’ve learned that we have to go to people, we have to go to where they’re at, they’re not going to come to us,” said Mandip Kaur, the health director of the nonprofit Jakara Movement.