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Ireland adopts Online Safety Code for video-sharing platforms including TikTok
Ireland's media and internet watchdog, Coimisiún na Meán, has adopted and published an Online Safety Code that will apply to video-sharing platforms
Ireland’s media and internet watchdog, Coimisiún na Meán, has adopted and published an Online Safety Code that will apply to video-sharing platforms headquartered in the country from next month — including the likes of Bytedance’s TikTok, Google-owned YouTube and Meta’s Instagram and Facebook Reels. The latter, a pan-EU law, has applied broadly since mid February and is focused on online governance of illegal content (e.g. CSAM), rather than tackling the wider sweep of harms Coimisiún na Meán’s Code aims to address. The EU’s DSA applies around the bloc so is also in force in Ireland, with the Coimisiún na Meán responsible for enforcing the regulation’s general rules on any locally headquartered companies in scope — in addition to overseeing the new Online Safety Code.
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