Il Parlamento europeo chiede 16 anni come età minima sui social media
European Parliament calls for 16 as minimum age on social media
di jonnieggg
Il Parlamento europeo chiede 16 anni come età minima sui social media
European Parliament calls for 16 as minimum age on social media
di jonnieggg
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“Designated websites in the EU are already required to follow age verification obligations as part of the EU Digital Services Act to ensure that minors are kept safe from harmful content on social media. The EU is also working towards an EU age verification app and a digital identity wallet”
Is this really about the kids or is it a plausible cover story for government censorship and control.
I feel like implementation would be better at the user end. Have devices confirm the age of the user and have websites opt-in to being suitable for U-16 content.
The way it’s rolled out in somewhere like the Uk, it’s on websites to promote police the age verification, which isn’t feasible for smaller sites and can be ignored by sites as it’s effectively opt-in with threat of future litigation as the drive to join.
It seems as though it allows for endless access to content to someone who skirts the bigger websites, something children are adept at.
This has worked brilliantly in the UK since they brought it in… oh wait it hasn’t at all. How about parents actually do their jobs instead of bringing in stupid laws like this
Can there be an upper limit as well? Cuz I swear every boomer and half the GenXers I know are absolutely unable to safely navigate social media. From conspiracy theories to AI they’re completely taken in by everything and it’s exhausting.
The amount of young people who take their own lives due to online harassment is awful. And it’s not a new thing either. This is really needed. And needs to be enforceable.
i kniow this will get a bit of hate , but this is a good thing
This is a good thing.
And to those saying its pointless because how will it be enforced. I say, you have to start somewhere. We can’t keep going on as if the issue will just fix itself. A law like this forces governments in the EU to start looking seriously into how this can be enforced and implemented which is just not happening seriously ATM
Never underestimate the power of the algorithm. I was on Instagram earlier. I watched a cat video, amusing as they are. A classic black and white handsome cat. I went back into the general search page. I could have been a 12 year old for Pete’s sake!
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Agree with the sentiment but its also pretty obvious a push for requirement of ID to be on these platforms under a “we’re the good guys” guise. More and more they want to be able to tie online activity to real people. While this has obvious benefits its also extremely infringing personal information and making it so such platforms cant be used without having ID also provided is a slippery slope against that
As a former child on the internet, yep, needed. Too many creeps on the internet to just give children access.
I feel like the current age rules could create a real privacy problem if people have to give passports or IDs to companies like Meta or TikTok. In my opinion, it might work better if the government issued an encrypted token that just proves your age without revealing any personal info. I think this could be limited to major social media platforms, like Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, Reddit, and Twitch, and only sites that are officially registered as social media companies under the law would have to comply. They could add new platforms in the future as needed. The token would only show whether someone is above the required age and wouldn’t track what they do or where they use it.
In my view, this would let kids be kept off these platforms while keeping our sensitive information away from companies that could misuse it or be hacked. I just feel like this might be a way to protect young people without giving social media companies a giant database of passport scans and other personal details.
It would be much more useful to have a maximum age.
There is a massive technological literacy gap in the older generarion and too many older people are falling for AI slop.
Most misinformation would stop overnight if the boomers no longer had access to social media.
Yeah no issue with it. They will find ways to do it anyway, but say someone is acting like a bully online and they are underage.. this might be an extra way to force parents to take care of their delinquent kid.
You can tell quite a few users here have drank the kool-aid.
How will this be enforced without an invasive and dangerous system of verification which will destroy online privacy? And what’s more, whatever system is implemented won’t work. The British have tried to implement a system of ID verification, and it’s been a failure.
When I was a kid, we all found ways to access material we shouldn’t have been accessing. It wasn’t ever very hard. The reality is there are solutions to these problems, such as teaching digital literacy and healthy online practices, and parents actually fucking parenting. But those solutions are difficult, and don’t hand governments massive amounts of power.