Pornhub and three other adult websites face EU child safety investigation
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The EU's probe is long overdue. Big Tech and pornography platforms have repeatedly demonstrated callous disregard for child safety, prioritizing profits over protection while enabling predators and grooming vulnerable youth. These corporate giants cannot be trusted to self-regulate — aggressive intervention is absolutely essential to safeguard our children.
Age-verification systems are fundamentally flawed technological Band-Aids that fail spectacularly in practice. Users simply migrate to non-compliant platforms or employ VPNs, while these invasive tools create massive privacy vulnerabilities and exclude legitimate consumers. The EU's faith in such demonstrably ineffective surveillance measures is profoundly misguided.
There is a 95% chance the Freedom House will report that internet freedom has declined every year until 2025, according to the Metaculus prediction community.