European Union: European Commission preliminarily found Stripchat in breach of the Digital Services Act for failing to protect minors

On 26 March 2026, the European Commission issued preliminary findings that Stripchat breached the Digital Services Act (DSA) by failing to protect minors from exposure to pornographic content. The Commission found that Stripchat's risk assessment did not apply objective and thorough methodologies, disproportionately emphasising business-centric concerns over societal risks to minors, and misrepresented or did not consider its meetings with civil society organisations specialising in children's rights and age assurance tools. The Commission also found that self-declaration of age, page blurring, content warnings and 'Restricted to adults' labels do not effectively prevent minors from accessing harmful content, and that Stripchat must implement privacy-preserving age verification measures.