@EUCommission While I agree with most users here, does it even make sense to "complaint" on an account maintained by social network employees who likely can't do anything about it anyway?

Shouldn't we rally around such cases of "digital" injustices and create a website with the help of privacy respecting open source projects, to spread the word and reach out to MEPs, similar to the https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ initiative?

@EUCommission

they don't. they exploit them. and you know that.

@EUCommission And still the #EU is trying for years to get and analyse all their (and everyone else's) chat messages.

But only for security purposes. (Or to create profiles about your citizens containing critical information like political views, diseases, sexual oriantation, contacts, locations, etc.) Its like Donald Trump using Peter Thiels informations only for security reasons 🤨

But thank you very much for your efforts to ban names like Veggie Sausage, those are the problems that matter.

@EUCommission yeah let's ignore the data leak from discord that published a lot of data from UK citizens and do the same actions. This isn't to protect children. This is just pure power play by people that should no longer have that power

You want to protect children? You want to protect citizens? Educate them, make sure it isn't a risk to go to the police, make the police take them seriously and don't make everything spyware

At least have the guts to say what you are doing

@EUCommission

Well right now they want to do it by blocking all of the competition and having all developers pay them regardless of using their app stores to distribute the apps.

So basically they're using this as an excuse to lockdown their platforms and hinder competition...

@EUCommission
Dès que des pays souhaitent mettre en place des mesures liberticides liées au numérique, ils invoquent la protection des enfants. Le Royaume-Uni a d’ailleurs utilisé la même rhétorique pour restreindre l’usage des intelligences artificielles open source.
C'est une honte de voir ça en Europe et d'autant plus honteux de savoir que la France est favorable. Merci à l'Allemagne de donner de l'espoir aux citoyens européens qui ont un minimum de culture numérique !

@EUCommission https://www.404media.co/the-discord-hack-is-every-users-worst-nightmare/

@EUCommission
Harmful content and especially illegal products are bad for adults as well. So let's just make Meta, Google and the others step up their game on this.
Also - force them to stop tracking people. Force them to stop using brutal algorithms to keep people stuck to the screens.
Fine them when they drown people with illegal or malicious ads.
Our company had to jump through hoops for a week to be allowed to publish one ad. Meanwhile, front page ads are full of scams.

@EUCommission well, it takes two for tango - typically minors don't just buy a smartphone or computer (to access Snapchat, etc.) on their own.

Access to these devices is given to them. Whomever grant minors access to such devices would then be in charge to teach them the proper use (imo.).

What measures are planned on this end?
(E.g. programs to teach unaware/disinterested parents the basics of using Information Technology?)

@EUCommission

Private communication is non-negotiable.

@EUCommission age checking is a flawed system. How about you actually educate the parents and kids on how to be responsible when using the internet and have law enforcement agencies crack down on child abuse rings? Maybe that would be a better idea than covertly undermining every single citizen's privacy.

@EUCommission Stop with this age verification! Internet should be open. There was a data leaked of personal information exactly because of your stupid age verification!
And NO! We don't want your "digital ID". Sooner or later this digital ID will become a tool for tracking and censorship!

@EUCommission How about using an AI agent to all clients to detect and supervise minors browsing sexual content? Or perhaps deny data encryption in digital services to provide better access to private data for men in the middle?

@EUCommission

You are worrying about children's internet safety while promoting age checks, which are well known to be a bad tool for internet safety due to the risk of sensitive and personal identifiable data being mistreated, shared and/or leaked.

Don't let companies do the parent's job.

@EUCommission nobody's gonna follow you on this... no wait... maybe Orban, Salvini & friends will!

@EUCommission How do you plan on having age verification without compromising people privacy?

There is no Digital ID that allow for provable anonymity while doing age verification.

There is one solution: 100% local "parental" control on kids device. You can even make it mandatory if you don't trust parents, but for god's sake do not mandate online verification, only local verification is compatible with privacy and it is a more robust solution (cannot be bypassed by VPN)