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Publishes adult content

publishes_adult_content

Your app hosts or distributes sexually explicit material, or other content a jurisdiction classifies as harmful to minors.

  • scope deployment
  • in the registry since 1.0
  • 254 laws in 133 jurisdictions name it

What triggers it

The lint's definition. It makes sexually explicit material available, whether it is yours or your users'.

This covers an adult video site, a forum that hosts explicit images its users upload, and a livestreaming service in that category.

What does not

A mainstream app that removes an occasional user-posted image once it is flagged does not count in the same way.

Often confused with Serves under-18s.

The law it brings into scope

The kinds of law that name this activity in the LexLint law library, with the number of laws and jurisdictions in each, as of . The examples are chosen by rule, laws in force first and the widest jurisdiction first; each section's page lists every law.

Area of lawLawsJurisdictions
Age gating law

Check or estimate a user's age, or design for the children likely to use the product.

 98 78
Cybersecurity law

Build software securely, handle reported flaws, and report incidents on a deadline.

 91 67
AI law

Tell people when they are dealing with an AI system or its output, and control the uses the law calls high-risk.

 46 33
Product and AI liability law

Answer in damages when defective software or an AI system causes harm.

 23 22
Privacy law

Have a legal basis for personal data, honor people's rights over it, and report a breach.

 2 2
Content moderation law

Act on notice of unlawful content, explain moderation decisions, and report on them.

 1 1

Counterparties that usually come with it

  • an age-assurance provider
  • a payment processor

A component that cannot run as documented without one of these names it in its ACTIVITIES.md under talks_to, with required: true. That party's jurisdiction then joins the run of every product that uses the component, and the finding says why it is there. A default the deployer can change is asked about, never added. Talking to a party never makes a product that party.

In a declaration

This activity is a property of how software is offered, so only an application or a service declares it, and only as performs.

For an application

activities: - id: publishes_adult_content mentioned: performs enabled: by_default note: <one sentence: what it does, and the kind of law it attracts>

History

In the registry since version 1.0, .

In the glossary: Publishes adult content.

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