UK Media Regulator ofCom has issued a significant warning to social media companies, including the X Elon Muska X platform, which requires strict age verification measures to prevent children from accessing pornography-or fines that could be up to 200 million GBP.
The Directive, which will come into force this Friday (July 25), is part of the Law on Online Security 2023, whose aim to protect children and adults from harmful online content.
Objectives of the procedure under 18 years of age
According to Mailonline, the new rules require “all companies guest pornography have to have robust and highly efficient age checks” to stop users under 18 years in viewing explicit material.
“On Friday, all sites and applications that allow pornography – be it specialized adult or social media applications – to use high -effective age controls,” said the Government of the British Government for News.
“If companies cannot act, they should expect to face recovery.”
X faces massive fines
Within the new regime, any company that does not follow, affected by fines up to 18 million GBP or 10% of global income, depending on what is higher. For Musk X – well known as Twitter – this can mean a potential fine of 200 million GBP, based on an estimated 2 billion GBP in global income, the publication said.
Possibilities of compliance with regulations
Industry cited by intelligence outlet indicates that X may have three ways to meet the requirements of ofCom:
- Procedure forbidden under 18 years of use of the platform
- Remove all pornographic content from the web
- Introduce targeted age checks or sections containing adult material
- Age checks could include facial recognition tools, photo ID, verification of open banking or checking mobile phone providers.
Musk’s platform under control
The enforcement comes in the middle of the growing criticism of Elon Musk’s digital businesses. Mailonline notes that his company AI XAI has recently launched a chatbot “girlfriend” accessible to users at the age of 12 and gained another alarm between regulators and parents.
Musk, 54, oversees X since the acquisition of 2022. The platform, which officially allows users aged 13 or over, has long been criticized for hosting a large volume of explicit content.
Ban threat to weaving
In addition to cash sanctions, OFCOM is now authorized to ban non -complication platforms in the UK, which could seriously affect platforms such as X if the action was not performed quickly.
According to the news report report, the government’s dedicator is a British state firmly: “If X or other society that hosts pornography has not introduced highly effective age security within this Friday term, ofCom it was clear that they would face coercive measures.”
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