Post B5RblBX8suEMMGDhjM by martenson@mastodon.world
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(DIR) Post #B5RaDUvSB9OOhYxqPw by EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu
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Growing up now is growing up online. Young people in Europe spend much of their lives in digital spaces where they connect, learn and express themselves.But they can also face risks like cyberbullying, disinformation and harmful content.We want to ensure a safer online environment for them:🔹The Digital Services Act🔹The EU Action against cyberbullying🔹Mental health support🔹The EU strategy on child sexual abuse online🔹Age-appropriate protections👉 https://link.europa.eu/bmBQRP
(DIR) Post #B5RaSN4tdemYhqTP8q by ozzelot@mstdn.social
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@EUCommissionHope one of those will include banning Meta et al. from doing business in Europe...
(DIR) Post #B5RaaESTZQ0iI0Fc0W by bytes4life@mastodon.gal
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@EUCommission How Digital Services Act helps young people?
(DIR) Post #B5Rb1OXKCwUbMhTGMa by DrJLecter@beige.party
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@EUCommission the best protection would be to ban Meta and TikTok in Europe. That would solve 90% of the problems immediately.
(DIR) Post #B5Rb62VrWCRmVZ0A4G by koen_hufkens@mastodon.social
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@EUCommission First of all, ban the Big Tech lobby. Then the rest will flow from there.
(DIR) Post #B5Rb86e77f6RuDqYhU by newt@stereophonic.space
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@EUCommission
(DIR) Post #B5RbOPAzzjX40h05BI by zughy_boi@mastodon.social
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@EUCommission instead of Orwellian age-appropriate protections, if you want to protect children you could start by banning and sanctioning games that push minors into gambling and child labour such as the well known Roblox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQOr by realising that big techs put children into their ecosystem starting by the very schools, making it way harder for children to leave such ecosystems as they grow up
(DIR) Post #B5Rba8vwDA396nYKmG by truls46@mastodon.social
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@EUCommission No, you are not keeping them safe. You are preparing a mass-surveillance state modeled after China or Russia.
(DIR) Post #B5RblBX8suEMMGDhjM by martenson@mastodon.world
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@EUCommission Most of the list is easy to push low-effect crap. If you want to help for real then fight facebook and tiktok and other platforms that push algorithmic dopamine machine and gambling concepts on anyone that unlocks a screen.
(DIR) Post #B5RcNqpnmEPbSGNx6O by rogue_cells@chaos.social
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@EUCommission Instead of sanctioning Meta, X, etc. you are engaging in age discrimination and risk mass surveillance and massive scale data leaks. Instead of listening to the thousands of IT security and digital policy experts warning you of the massive dangers and discriminatory effects of age verification, you are mindlessly storming forward with half-baked ideas and ideological tunnelvision. That's not the EU I love and support. Shame on you.
(DIR) Post #B5RcTB1w7KCNXSbIpc by rogue_cells@chaos.social
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@EUCommission Stop age discrimination and ban surveillance capitalist methods, now!
(DIR) Post #B5RdOwQuXywZ3upJQW by erwinrossen@mas.to
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@EUCommission "The DSA requires platforms accessible to minors to maintain a high level of privacy, safety and security."I have a better idea. What if you require privacy, safety and security for *all* platforms? That way you also don't have to breach it yourself with age verification.
(DIR) Post #B5Re9ejUAsYPm9n2Rc by PSiReN@psiren.eu
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#NoAgeVerificationRequired #EULaw #MyProtectedCharacteristics #LookITUp 🧙⚕️🤖:wolfparty:🤖⚕️🧙 | :fediverse:🦹:PirateBadge:🦄:PirateBadge:🦹:fediverse:#DigitalServicesAct #BeingRight #SuperAwesome
(DIR) Post #B5ReKRU1m8hHrwhdjM by Kdude@mastodon.social
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@EUCommission 👎🏼 your implementation to implement age verification, which means identification of **everyone**. (to prevent "child sexual abuse"), is a terrible idea...
(DIR) Post #B5Rf5Sq8Y7QNgeSxOa by dezon@chaos.social
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@EUCommission the parents of children need to take responsibility too by educating them well, and to teach the proper norms and values. Folks online also should play a role in this by being friendly and behaving decent. It takes a village to raise a child, in the physical world right, so why not in the digital world. Also, children should be able to make mistakes even online.
(DIR) Post #B5RfA3qgtQD3ctuvKK by iju@mastodon.social
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@EUCommission >Age-appropriate protectionsThis sounds way too much like "we know tobacco products are designed to be more addictive than necessary, so we're banning their sale from under 18 year olds".Please consider that everyone wants a safe environment, and you can't just let social media companies act predatory because all the victims are of voting age.
(DIR) Post #B5RhUzkLXYSUtQ3k0W by verbedr@mastodon.sdf.org
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@EUCommission what about protecting the adults? When will online advertising agency be made responsible for the ads they are delivering. Meta knows that at least 20% of them are scams but they rather keep the revenue than rejecting them.
(DIR) Post #B5Ri2hyo6RrpdUtniC by IncHulk@mastodon.green
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@EUCommission Make legally enforced clarity of finance sources for all lobbyists. Then you will know Meta is behind the push for everyone to be IDd (claiming to be for child protection). Online privacy is a key right in a democracy, do not remove it.Enforce controls on what big-tech can do with data on individuals, existence of unwanted targeted ads is proof of private data abuse.Outlaw efforts to make systems addictive.
(DIR) Post #B5RmpTAKN0RjhGnIae by pantaRhei@freiburg.social
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@EUCommission the linked article states:”While young people are digital natives, their impulse control and understanding of threats is sometimes lacking.“Lacking impulse control and understanding of threats is not a trait specific to young people. Else there won't be hate speech, manipulation through rage bait, fear bait, etc. won't work and people wouldn't react on any scam/malicious e-mail (or could be manipulated to vote for Brexit).”Some platforms exploit this with features specifically designed to keep users hooked for hours and algorithms may also push harmful content directly into a child’s feed, while collecting their personal data for long-term profiling and targeted advertising.“You know the core issue but you're not addressing it.You want to take care of minors because they're not able to see and handle these threats but adults are supposed to now (and properly react on) the very same threats.”Actions to protect young people online are favoured by the majority of Europeans, with over 9 in 10 supporting mechanisms to restrict children’s ability to access age-inappropriate content.“Well, hiding behind ”the majority“ is a comfortable position.… and it allows you to avoid addressing who is actually in charge to give minors access to these platforms - their parents or legal guardians.Last but not least, this initiative is imbued with the same spirit Mrs. von der Leyen showed about 20 years ago when she was in charge of introducing measures against (online) child abuse.Her only proposed solution was implementing virtual stop signs to block sites showing criminal contents.No measures were proposed to prevent actually occurring acts of violence against children.Today you are about to repeat this farce on European scale.Don't do that!
(DIR) Post #B5RrXadcLg7BQkmvBI by luca@mastodon.luca-alloatti.eu
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@EUCommission Seriously?Your website commission.europa.eu is an Amazon CloudFront distribution. The TLS certificate is issued by Amazon. Every visitor clicking the URL in this post (including the young Europeans you claim to protect!) delivers personal data to a US server, under US law.You cannot legislate what you cannot practice.Enough with empty rhetoric. It is time for a "#RegimeChange" at the #EuropeanCommission.
(DIR) Post #B5RttkCJgcl5MHi4kS by The_Universality@mastodon.novotnykrystof.com
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@EUCommissionThis is happening offline as well.Shall everyone verify with their ID that they can go outside?Education and social-site algorithm regulation.
(DIR) Post #B5RvAqG6VLev29CLUu by RubenWA@vivaldi.net
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@EUCommission Privacy is a human right.
(DIR) Post #B5Rw316gO6ywJdckeu by elricofmelnibone@mastodon.social
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@EUCommission Bullying is bullying, regardless of where it happens. Same with sexual abuse. Educate kids. Teach them so they can grow up to be resilient adults. Instead of turning the entire EU into a bizarre Orwellian dystopia supposedly tO pRoTeCt tHe cHilDreN.Take the money you're spending on this bullshit and start spending it on mental healthcare.
(DIR) Post #B5RzHZV3byXotuemvI by ardyvee@mastodon.xyz
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@EUCommission y'all are swinging and missing with this one. There are so many questions about this protection I have that anyone who has been a teen with internet could come up with (or, really, anyone who knows what teens get up to) that y'all have not even addressed.It honestly reads like an attempt to introduce means of control and not a real attempt at providing safety.
(DIR) Post #B5S04o8xxHueVUnkqu by fediway@fediway.com
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we are testing our open beta for a recommendation engine and an optimized UX for users. super important to make social spaces more safe. but we also need tor address how to make spaces like Fediverse also interesting for mainstream audiences. Australia shows that excluding under 16 years old from social media is just tackling symptoms. people will always find workarounds. its not a longterm solution, especially not working towards digital sovereignty for people.
(DIR) Post #B5S2jhqMU1x8kUjGIi by LukeAlmighty@gameliberty.club
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@EUCommission I am so tired of these dictators pretending to care while stealing rights.
(DIR) Post #B5S31W6Us0pxYEljiy by LukeAlmighty@gameliberty.club
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@yezanek @EUCommission Hello sir, you are the problem.
(DIR) Post #B5S6JcwoSnTDqsZC5I by phnt@fluffytail.org
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@EUCommission s/US govt/EUwrapped-government-control-laws-free-speech-control.jpg
(DIR) Post #B5S7e5ryk2etIWd1ua by strangequark@dice.camp
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@EUCommission DSA is a great piece of legislation. Its weakness is that it relies on you to enforce it. Laws that are not enforced don't protect anyone.
(DIR) Post #B5S8nafVhXhDNZtAQq by AxT9lBKpKuSEXNXtce.jeff@mk.magicka.org
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@newt@stereophonic.space @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu reporting them for promoting stalking children online
(DIR) Post #B5SGgHKY073z0e6koS by notsoloud@expressional.social
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@DrJLecterBan surveillance advertising.@EUCommission
(DIR) Post #B5SIJPZZOEbVovMHiq by jjacobsson@mastodon.gamedev.place
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@EUCommission oh look, fascist surveillance bullshit in Europe! Just what I always wanted.
(DIR) Post #B5SY5PJr8MsuFMLvcG by sally@freesoftwareextremist.com
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@EUCommission The worst that ever happened to european people is the EU Commission.
(DIR) Post #B5SY5gLto1cV4cRIf2 by 7666@comp.lain.la
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@EUCommission
(DIR) Post #B5Sfks2PxjqErtuke8 by lexihexi@mastodon.social
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@EUCommission Then how about you make sure that platforms pull their own weight when it comes to protecting kids? All I keep hearing is data retention, mass surveillance, backdoors, operation-system-based age verification ... NONE of these work because actual culprits like meta and Xitter go scot-free!
(DIR) Post #B5Shxkv5wFoKSslF1U by polx@mastodon.online
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@EUCommission sorry.This is just ridiculous solutionism.Say that you doing things to try to keep them safe... We may agree and applaud. But only say that you are keeping them safe if you have an independent study that proves it.E.g. the recent age-limits potential progress will let irresponsible parents worry even less of the usage... And thus make it even more possible to let users become dependent.
(DIR) Post #B5SkzwEJ9wVTz2TpFw by mint@ryona.agency
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@EUCommission The world would've been a better place if Morgenthau Plan was implemented.blast_germany_from_orbit.png
(DIR) Post #B5SkzwTYFGhSkJc012 by yomiel@new.asbestos.cafe
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@mint @EUCommission
(DIR) Post #B5Td4bx9N17c4L8EXw by tecHunt@mastodon.social
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@EUCommissionIf any of these lovely proposals include collecting more identifiable information (name, age, address, passport / ID, behavioral patterns, ...) you can shove them right in the bin.If anything, they should do the opposite.When there's no real name attached to a data cache it becomes less valuable for bad actors and the problem solves itself.