LatviaElektronisko plašsaziņas līdzekļu likums, Article 23.6, Video-Sharing Platform Minor Protection Measures
In force since .
An age-appropriate design code rule binding private bodies.
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Applies to video-sharing platform providers: providers of a service, or a separable part of one, that carries no editorial responsibility, whose essential functionality is mainly to offer the general public programmes and user-generated videos, and which the provider organizes, including by automatic means or algorithms.
- Take appropriate measures to protect the public from content and user-generated video or audio commercial communications that could harm minors' physical, mental or moral development, that could incite violence or hatred, or that constitute a listed criminal offence.
- Publish your own publicly accessible code of conduct addressing commercial communications aimed at, or capable of negatively affecting, the psychological or physical development of minors, including in children's programming.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text. Also read by: Nacionālā elektronisko plašsaziņas līdzekļu padome (National Electronic Mass Media Council, NEPLP) (guidance, recorded ).
Who enforces it
Settledness
The NEPLP instruction of sets out the features and criteria for deciding whether a service is a video-sharing platform.
- As of
- Guidance link
- https://www.neplp.lv/lv/media/10214/download?attachment
- Guidance body
- Nacionālā elektronisko plašsaziņas līdzekļu padome (National Electronic Mass Media Council, NEPLP)
- Open questions
- Which measures are 'piemēroti pasākumi' (appropriate measures) that a video-sharing platform provider must take under Article 23.6(1) of the Elektronisko plašsaziņas līdzekļu likums to protect the public from content that could harm minors, when the paragraph lists no measure and sets no criterion for what is appropriate?
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Article 23.6(1) requires a video-sharing platform provider to take appropriate measures to protect the public from content that could harm minors, incite violence or hatred, or constitute a listed offense, and paragraph 3 requires a publicly available code of conduct. Neither paragraph requires a log or a record to be kept or produced.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
In the Electronic Mass Media Law, a video-sharing platform service is a service or separable part of one that carries no editorial responsibility, whose essential functionality is mainly to offer the general public programmes and user-generated videos, and whose organization the provider determines, including by automatic means or algorithms.
A video-sharing platform provider must take appropriate measures to protect the public from content and user-generated video or audio commercial communications that could harm minors' physical, mental, or moral development, that could incite violence or hatred, or that constitute a listed criminal offence.
It must publish its own publicly accessible code of conduct addressing commercial communications aimed at or capable of negatively affecting the psychological or physical development of minors, including in children's programming.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app serves under-18s or operates a social platform.
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