Ireland leads the European attack to protect the palace on the Internet

Irish “Coimisiún Na Meán”, the national organizer responsible for supervision Digital Services Law From the European Union (DSA) in Ireland, made Child safety priority for 2025According to your published work programLast week.
On the national level, the organizer provides for this It will ensure that the platforms fulfill their obligations To maintain children’s safety online through the application and supervision of the security framework online.
In July, they enter into force Rulings that restrict harmful content Likewise CyberPromoting self -traffic or suicide, promoting eating disorders, dangerous challenges and detailed provisions regarding the guarantee of age and parental control.
DSA, which began to apply to all platforms in February 2024, forces companies, among other things, to meet the requirements of transparency and electoral integration. the European Commission Oversee 25 higher online platformsThose who have more than 45 million users per month, while national control agencies oversee all the platforms below this threshold.
“Coimisiún Na Meán” is the deputy presidency of the European Union’s working group, which is guidelines for childhood protection within the DSA framework. These guidelines are expected to be this year. “We will continue to participate in some of the investigations that the European Commission opened within the DSA framework, which you deal with Related issues for children“The work program says.
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The committee opened many investigations About DSA violationsBut none of them has ended yet. Last year, Facebook and Meta Instagram started the investigation because it is suspected of being Stimulating behaviors can stimulate behavioral addiction In children, as well as the creation of “effects of hole”.
In addition, the committee is also concernedFor ways Verification and life guarantee The target planted it. Last month, a senior Irish organizer warnedThe European Union organizers need a common approach to impose platform standards online, because DSA leaves the interpretation margin.