2026-09-16 11:05 UTC
1/ 🛑 President Ursula von der Leyen’s #SOTEU announcement on age-gating and banning children’s access to online spaces comes with no surprise.
📝 There is a fundamental problem with the approach: you won’t be making harmful platform safer by preventing young people from using them, you can only achieve that by regulating the platforms in the very first place.
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@edri@eupolicy.social 2026-09-16 11:08
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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@dif@mathstodon.xyz 2026-09-16 11:15
@edri@eupolicy.social Ngl, you had me in the frist part