Europe Plans Major Crackdown on Child Pornography

Tré Goins-Phillips : Jan 13, 2022
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"I will propose legislation in the coming months that will require companies to detect, report, and remove child sexual abuse [content]." -EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson

[Faithwire.com] Lawmakers in the European Union could soon force social media platforms to do more to combat child pornography. (Image: Unsplash-Andras Vas)

In the coming months, politicians are poised to introduce stricter regulations to replace temporary legislation allowing for the voluntary reporting of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), or child pornography, as it's more commonly called, according to Euronews.

"I will propose legislation in the coming months that will require companies to detect, report, and remove child sexual abuse [content]," EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson told Welt am Sonntag, a German newspaper. "A voluntary report will then no longer be sufficient."

Current legislation allows social media brands—like Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta—to decide whether to follow up on users suspected of possessing CSAM. Some platforms, though, stopped reporting the potentially illegal content over fears of running afoul of privacy laws... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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