The DMA’s Challenge to User Safety: Lessons from Apple’s Porn App Controversy

Mikołaj Barczentewicz February 4, 2025

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Arecent controversy over pornographic apps being downloaded to iPhones in the European Union illustrates a fundamental tension in the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA): the conflict between mandated openness and established user-safety expectations.

While the DMA aims to promote competition and user choice, the recent case of the pornographic-video app Hot Tub, distributed to iPhone users through the third-party app store AltStore PAL, demonstrates how improper application of the regulation can compromise the user-safety mechanisms upon which consumers have come to rely.

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