ANNOUNCEMENT: Round Table (EX-YU Region) - From Stigma to Standards: Responsible Adult Industry in the Region

Introduction

Dobra Družba opens a public and professional dialogue on topics that are often spoken about quietly, with discomfort, or through scandals in the region — instead of through standardization, safety, and protection.

This is an international project for the entire former Yugoslavia because solutions cannot be only local: the internet, platforms, payment systems, and risks know no borders. People, work, and consequences have long been moving across borders in our region.

Our starting idea is simple: if we don't set the standards — others will. Or there won't be any, and the bill will be paid by the most vulnerable: minors, victims of abuse, and creators who remain without protection against identity and content theft.

Why Now?

Because conditions are changing rapidly:

• the industry is heavily platformized (dependence on rules and algorithms),

• stigma increases vulnerability and reduces the possibility of reporting abuse,

• deplatforming is becoming more frequent (account blocks, payments, content, 'compliance'),

• security incidents (doxxing, extortion, leaks) are no longer an exception,

• AI opens a new era of deepfakes and 'synthetic performers', where someone can copy a face, voice, or body with a few clicks — without consent.

Three Key Topics of the First Round Table

1) Protection of minors / age-gating: How to technically restrict access to minors — without massive collection of intimate data of adults and without creating systems that could become surveillance or censorship. What is realistically feasible in 6–12 months? Who bears responsibility: platforms, the state, parents, internet providers?

2) Entry into the industry at 21+: The difference between 18+ as legality and 21+ as a protective standard for riskier forms of work. How do we set up safeguards so that young people get time and information — and the possibility of a different path? How to prevent measures from pushing work even deeper into the gray economy? Which safeguards make sense (info package, 'cooling-off', legal support)?

3) AI + 'SAZAS for adults' / proof of humanity: How to protect creators from AI clones, deepfakes, identity and content theft. Do we need a regional register, certificate, watermarking, file signing? How to organize collective management: quick takedown procedures, licensing, legal aid?

What We Want After the Event

This is not a one-time event. The first round table is informative and open-source — intended to attract the wider public and media and invite politics and institutions into the process.

After the event, we want to establish international/regional working groups that will prepare proposals and build minimum standards:

• Age-gating standard (EX-YU)

• 21+ framework and safeguards (EX-YU)

• AI & creator register (EX-YU)

Subsequent round tables will then be individually thematic and more in-depth — with concrete proposals, protocols, and possible pilot solutions.

Who We Invite to Participate

We invite everyone who wants to participate in the round table or in further working groups:

• creators and workers from the industry (digital creators, performers, producers, support services),

• lawyers, experts in personal data protection, digital rights, and media law,

• experts in cybersecurity and digital identity,

• psychologists, pedagogues, and experts on adolescents and digital habits,

• NGOs, institutions, media, political parties, and public sector representatives.

If you have knowledge, experience, or responsibility in this area — this is an invitation for you.

📌 The date and time of the round table will be announced in the coming days.

📩 To participate as a speaker/panelist or member of a working group, write to us (DM / e-mail).

(If you wish, you can also participate discreetly or under a pseudonym — safety and privacy are part of the standards we advocate.)