This plan goes far beyond the requirement of the EU Audio-visual directive, which the EU Commission suggests "could be done by the use of PIN codes". It goes on to give examples of pornography and acts of violence, but the controls aren't limited to them. The exact description of what is to be restricted behind the Commission's Nightclub Bouncer plan is simply 'age-inappropriate content', defined broadly in Section 45 of the Online Safety Act 2023 as "online content that is likely to be unsuitable for children (either generally or below a particular age), having regard to their capabilities, their development, and their rights and interests". In other countries, this has been the kind of legal provision which has seen libraries restricting access to books involving LGBTQ+ themes, racial justice themes and anything else you could imagine the Burke family objecting to. They can be applied to any sites which contains material the Commission decides may be legal, but on the other hand, oughtn't be seen by children. Providing audiovisual programmes or user-generated videos, or both, by electronic communications networks, to the general public, in order to inform, entertain or educate.Īlso, these restrictions won't just limit and record access to porn sites. (c) an essential functionality of the service is devoted to, (b) the principal purpose of a dissociable section of the service is devoted to, or (a) the principal purpose of the service is devoted to, In this Act, ‘video-sharing platform service’ means, subject to subsection (3), a service, within the meaning of Articles 56 and 57 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, where. In fact, Section 2 of the Broadcasting Act 2009 (as amended) casts the net wide enough to cover almost anywhere that lets you post a video. It might also mean homegrown platforms such as Mastodon.ie, the most prominent Irish part of the Fediverse, who also allow videos to be shared. That's a list that includes Facebook, WhatsApp, XTwitter and YouTube, just to pick four household names (because of Section 5 of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Act 2022). But the age-verification requirement actually can cover any video-sharing platform under the jurisdiction of the Irish State (link to the designation notice under section 139E and section 139G of the Broadcasting 2009 Act). You can just email what you think of it, giving as many reasons why you think it is a bad idea to Please do drop them a line, and tell your friends too.īut wait! That's not all! The CnaM Executive Chairman wanted to talk about porn sites because that's the least popular class of entities covered by this regulation. The Commission has extended its time for feedback on this plan to the 31st January 2024. Hey! Good news! This crackpot scheme isn't law yet. I refer you now to the top of the newsletter. Resulting, amongst other things, in an effective register of porn preferences for adults and a collection of selfies of children kept by the porn sites for six years (required to prove they have complied with the regulation, you see). This is the national internet regulator proposing that it would require that everyone, adult and children alike, would upload their state ID and live selfies, to porn sites to have biometric processing of their facial images performed. And then the porn sites would run biometric data processing on those images (details unspecified) to confirm they were over 18. Mr Godfrey suggested that his Commission would require adults and minors (children under 18) to send a copy of their passport to websites- including porn sites- and then, also, send them a live selfie so the porn sites could see what they looked like right now. This body regulates content (and in particular video content) for the largest internet companies in the world due to the fact so many of them are based in Ireland. He outlined the plan set out in page 17 of their Consultation and proposal document to the Irish Examiner. This week the Executive Chairman of the new Irish regulator for internet content, Jeremy Godfrey, made himself available for comment to the press to discuss the Coimisiún na Meán (Media Commission) plan to introduce a code of conduct to control how adults would access websites. Hence, this helpful reference statement for you to return to repeatedly throughout. I say that now, because later on, as you're reading the rest of this piece, you're going to keep asking yourself "Is this some kind of a joke?" The first thing I should say: this is not a joke. Let's start with where things stand right now and then go from there. 4 min read Photo by Karsten Winegeart / Unsplash
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