The Digital Services Act requires platforms to protect minors, and the European Commission’s guidelines identify age assurance as a key measure for services carrying adult content and other age restricted risks. Before the DSA, GDPR and the AVMSD also created age-restrictions but enforcement was limited. Several member states, including France, have additionally legislated for mandatory age verification for pornography at national level and recently the Court of Justice of the EU enabled such states to enforce their own laws against services established elsewhere in the EU.
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