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Fines of up to €20 million for social media companies which fail to comply with the Online Safety Code will reduce the risk of harm and danger to children online, according to Fine Gael Senator Micheal Carrigy.

Karlin Lillington: The strange hybrid Coimisiún na Meán faces great challenges and one mooted porn registry idea is mega-scale bonkers

Ireland’s broadcasting and media regulator’s new rules are becoming a battleground for online platforms.

The High Court has deemed challenges by Reddit and Google to regulatory authority decisions affecting the internet companies’ operations have been formally opened before the court for the purpose of ensuring they are brought within legal deadlines.

Reddit, the American social-media company, has launched High Court proceedings after being listed among the 10 video-sharing services that will be subject to strict new online safety rules enforced by the Irish regulator.

Reddit, the US social-media company, says it has launched a High Court action against the Irish media regulator because it does not consider itself a video-sharing platform.

The website was named on a list of ten designated video sharing platforms last week by Coimisiún na Meán.

Websites to require rigorous form of age verification to allow users to watch adult content on their sites, media regulator says

In a Q&A about the Online Safety Code, Coimisiún na Meán addressed the idea that children could just bypass the age verification requirements for pornographic material.