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X mounts judicial review in Irish High Court, claiming Ireland’s Online Safety Code exceeds AVMSD and conflicts with the DSA; seeks annulment of designation and CJEU reference

Published on: 17 December 2024

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Article summary

Social network X is moving to contest Ireland’s Online Safety Code, claiming it both overlaps with and goes beyond other EU statutes, undermining efforts to align the bloc’s platform rules. The case, lodged last month, reached the Dublin High Court on 16 December 2024, with the firm seeking to quash the online safety regulator’s finding that it is captured by the code. Filings reviewed by MLex further illuminate the firm’s grounds for suing the authority. Its position only became public today, as particulars surfaced via a hearing in the Irish High Court and related court documents filed in the case.

Policy background

The Irish Online Safety Code, released in October 2024, sets fresh duties to block harmful material, deploy age-assurance tools and bolster parental controls (see here). The regulator billed it as ‘an end to the era of social media self-regulation,’ citing new powers to levy fines of up to 20 million euros or 10 per cent of annual turnover, whichever is greater, for non-compliance. In October, the commission said that X, formerly known as Twitter, would fall within the new regime alongside other major social media platforms such as Google’s YouTube and Meta’s Facebook...

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