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European parliament calls for social media ban on under-16s

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨King@blackneon.net⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.zip⁩

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20251120IPR31496/children-should-be-at-least-16-to-access-social-media-say-meps

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  • Emi@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Just give the parents the tools to do this(which there already are) rather than taking everyone’s privacy away and monitoring them all the time but sadly that seems to be the point. Orwell would be horrified.

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    In effect this is a forced ID law

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  • natecox@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This all sounds great. I wasn’t able to figure out how they plan to enforce it though.

    I want to believe that the list of things they outline can be enforced by just killing them entirely but I know that is a pipe dream; does that mean even more privacy destroying age verification systems?

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  • tangeli@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    MEPs insist that age assurance systems must be accurate and preserve minors’ privacy

    The EU, where War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery, Ignorance Is Strength and Surveillance is Privacy.

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  • gressen@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Will this apply to fedivese as well?

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  • onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yes, fight the symptoms by invading everybody’s privacy instead of educating people and legislating against Facebook, reddit, and others.

    This is the Christian way: the system isn’t the problem, you are the problem. Addicted to drugs? Weak willed! Fat? Weak willed! Sick? God’s plan, deal with it! Uneducated? WeAkWiLlEd!

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