Estonia

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-06

Estonia's Meediateenuste seadus (Media Services Act) Section 19-1, transposing the revised Audiovisual Media Services Directive's Article 28b, requires a video-sharing platform operator to provide, in its terms of service, that the platform may not carry programmes, user-generated videos or commercial communications that incite hatred, violence or discrimination, incite the commission of an offense, or depict child pornography, and to attach a warning and an on-screen symbol to content that may impair a minor's physical, mental or moral development.

Where the operator is aware of such content, it must remove or restrict access to it, and for content merely harmful to minors it must add the warning and symbol or ensure the content is accessible only through personal identification codes or another appropriate technical means that makes it inaccessible to a minor in the ordinary case. A user may complain to the Tarbijakaitse ja Tehnilise Järelevalve Amet (TTJA) if these duties are not respected.

The minimum age at which a minor may independently consent to an information-society service such as a social-media account is a privacy-topic finding, already covered in this jurisdiction's separately landed privacy document, and is not restated here. No Estonian adult-content age-verification statute, social-media minimum-registration-age statute, or app-store age-verification statute distinct from the video-sharing-platform duty above was located.