We’re issuing new guidelines under the Digital Services Act to protect minors online.

These recommendations target:

➡️️ Addictive design
➡️ Cyberbullying
➡️ Harmful content
➡️ Unwanted contact from strangers

We will ensure that children and young people can continue to enjoy the online world while minimising risks and exposure to harmful content.

https://europa.eu/!QvQBqR

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@EUCommission i’ve said it before and I will say it again. This is the responsibility of the parents. The way you are interfering in family matters starts scaring me.
And an additional negative effect of you mingling into family matters is that parents may stop asking their children how and what they do online because the parents assume the EU has somehow “taken care” of that.
@EUCommission It is great guidelines I really approve! It can contribute to more healthy social media, though why limit it to minors? Adult population is also exploited by social media corporations and is vulnerable to the addictive patterns. I think the guidelines should be valid for all group ages, and proper regulations should be introduced so that social media begins again to be social, instead of being a propaganda and manipulation tool that ruins lives.

Less age verification and potential privacy breaches, more addressing issues that affect everyone.

Also, "Prohibiting accounts from downloading or taking screenshots of content posted by minors" can't be easily enforced technology-wise, bad actors will just know how to skip this, and I don't think it's that important, it can create more inconvenience as sharing memes, their art possibly is the usual stuff that happens.

@EUCommission
"Prohibiting accounts from downloading or taking screenshots of content posted by minors"

How is this supposed to be implemented?
Even viewing/displaying such content requires a download. Given this premise, young people are now prohibited from sharing any creative output, which is a shame

At the same time, you have platforms like Roblox and Fortnite that benefit commercially from selling content made by minors, which is essentially child labor. Is this included here?