Tumblr secures court permission to challenge decision by Ireland's media watchdog

Microblogging website has challenged Coimisiún na Meán's decision to include it is a list of 'video-sharing' platforms to be regulated under new online safety code

In its action Tumblr Inc, a US-registered microblogging site, seeks orders quashing Coimisiún na Meán's decision of December 28 last designating the applicant as a video-sharing platform service.

The High Court has formally granted microblogging site Tumblr permission to challenge a decision to include it in a list of 10 “video-sharing platforms” to be regulated under a new online safety code.

Tumblr claims it is "clearly not" a video-sharing platform service and says its designation as such by media watchdog Coimisiún Na Meán amounts to an error of law, and says it should not be put in the same bracket as platforms such as YouTube.