2026-09-16 11:08 UTC
2/ The #EUKidsAct was leaked: while some of the proposed measures make sense & should arguably protect everyone, others risk causing new harm through blanket age restrictions by:
⚠️ Undermining children (& everyone's) rights to information, participation, expression & identity-building
🤖 Creating privacy & cybersecurity risks
🚫 Setting a precedent for exclusion, age-assurance infrastructure could eventually be used to restrict access to other forms of sensitive or politically contested info
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@edri@eupolicy.social 2026-09-16 11:09
3/ Young people themselves say: 🗣️ “To achieve safer digital environments, we must confront the systems that produce harm, not remove those most affected by it. Don’t build a digital world for us, build it with us, so it becomes one we want to inherit.” Read more in the joint oped we wrote this spring ⤵️ https://edri.org/our-work/youth-organisations-demand-social-media-change-not-bans/
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@veil_im@infosec.exchange 2026-09-16 11:12
This is the part that keeps getting lost in these debates: measures that sound protective can quietly become scanning infrastructure. Real protections don't require reading everyone's private messages.