2026-07-13 09:39 UTC
2/2 🙅🏽♀️ This is mass age-verification, not targeted protection.
Online safety can be achieved without making the exercise of digital rights contingent on meeting specific conditions. Online services must be made safer for ALL, and real safety means tackling the root causes. That means safer-by-design services, tackling harmful business models, and properly enforcing the rules we already have 🫶🏽
📢 It's not just us saying this, young people across Europe agree ➡️ https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/2089712/youth-organisations-demand-social-media-change-not-bans
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@humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world 2026-07-13 09:40
@edri@eupolicy.social You are competing with the Irish government who will fight to not regulate big tech
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@SirHendrick@noauthority.social 2026-07-13 12:26
@edri@eupolicy.social What concerning content currently makes it onto Social Media should place the efforts at the companies who can but refuse to moderate. Let's start there, in stead of carpet bombing privacy and freedom of speech.