Popular platform for people dealing with games, Nexus Modshas announced significant changes that will soon affect users from the European Union countries. The reason for the introduced modifications are New legal provisions regarding the safety of children and combating illegal content on the Internetwhich apply under the EU Digital Services Act.
Nothing will be removed from the platform, but the regulations and tags will change
The changes were announced two weeks after Nexus Mods changed the owner – after 24 years of managing its service The founder sold the page. Although this is the first serious decision of new authorities, the company emphasizes that the introduced solutions are not an expression of their original ideas, but a necessity resulting from legal requirements.
The most noticeable change for EU users will be the introduction of the age verification mechanism. It is to prevent minors from accessing adult content. Nexus Mods strongly emphasizes that it does not intend to remove such materials from the side, because they have always been an important thing for the modders community.
Website regulations will also be modified. It will contain more precise provisions regarding what, according to the law, is considered illegal content and how Nexus Mods intends to protect children from harmful influence. The administration also points out that the content containing sexual violence against children was already completely banned on the website – Only clarifying the rules will be new.
Another important change concerns the method of determining and filtering content for adults. There will be 10 new thematic tags that the EU users will be able to view only after positive age verification. They will also have the option of choosing which of these categories they want to see and which to hide. New tags are:
- Body stigma
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Extreme violence
- Harmful substances
- Pornographic
- Self-harm
- Sexualized
- Suicide
- Swearing or Profanity
The service community reacted to changes in a mixed way. Although no one questions the need to protect children or the ban on publishing illegal content, GThe form of age verification remains a faster point. Nexus Mods did not present the exact solutions, only emphasizing that “The details of this process are still analyzed because we want to do it right”.
It is not excluded that the site will apply Simple verification by clicking the field confirming the age of majority – As you know, it’s easy to get around. It is also possible that the verification will be more advanced, e.g. sending an identity document. And it is the issue of security and storage of such data that raises the greatest anxiety.
