Coimisiún na Meán, Ireland's media commission, published online safety codes on 8 August 2024 under the Online Safety and Media Regulation Act 2022, establishing legally binding requirements for video-sharing platforms to protect users, particularly children, from harmful content including child sexual abuse material, cyberbullying and content promoting self-harm or suicide. The codes require platforms to implement age-verification or age-assurance measures, content moderation systems, transparent reporting mechanisms and parental controls, with compliance monitored through regular audits and risk assessments.
Compliance frameworks and content-moderation queues address uploaded and publicly visible material but do not monitor private direct-message exchanges where grooming, sextortion and peer-to-peer abuse occur outside moderator view. Real-time message analysis detects coercion, sexual exploitation and bullying at the point of contact, before harm escalates or becomes irreversible. Guardii, a world-leading AI online-safety platform, monitors direct messages across video-sharing and social platforms including Instagram, Snapchat, Discord and Roblox, deploying anti-grooming, anti-sextortion, anti-CSAM and anti-cyberbullying detection to flag high-risk exchanges to parents, schools or safeguarding professionals, and enabling immediate escalation to the appropriate authority in an emergency.
