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Online platforms must ensure that the rights and best interests of children are central to the design and functioning of their services,
the European Commission said in a statement on Tuesday, The online space should be a safe environment for children to learn and connect. Our priority is to protect minors and allow them to navigate safely online,
Henna Virkkunen, the European Commission’s executive vice president for tech sovereignty, security and democracy, said in Tuesday’s statement Today is a good day for minor protection online in the EU, because with the enforcement actions that we are launching … against four very large online platforms with pornographic, adult content, we are clearly showing that we mean it when it comes to the effective protection of minors under the DSA,
an EU official told reporters We are not excluding future expansion of the proceedings” into other issues under the DSA, such as illegal content or ad repositories
a second Commission official said Our priority is to protect minors and allow them to navigate safely online. Together with the digital service coordinators in the member states we are determined to tackle any potential harm to young online users,
EU digital tsar Henna Virkkunen said Children should not have access to pornographic content. We suspect that these pornographic platforms are not properly assessing and mitigating risks stemming from their services and not effectively preventing kids from accessing adult content,
a commission spokesman said We will now conduct an in-depth investigation and invite the four companies to co-operate throughout the process,
the commission spokesman said on Tuesday
