🔞 Platforms have no excuse to continue practices that put children at risk.
We’ve asked Snapchat, YouTube, Apple App Store and Google Play for more information on the measures they have in place to protect minors.
This is the first investigatory step after the adoption of the Guidelines on the Protection of Minors, now also available in all EU languages and in a child- and parent-friendly version.
@EUCommission
It's so tiresome to see you guys come up with a 1984 different ways to say that you just want to spy on your subjects.
Just be honest about it already.
This is all about control, you want to take away privacy for millions of EU citizens, for a solution that is not going to work. There has been child abuse long before the internet, and the real criminals will just use a different app that does not comply with your mandatory spyware.
@EUCommission
Privacy isn't optional.
@EUCommission Please require companies to provide tools to parents to gate and monitor their children's access.
However, please do NOT require the companies to verify government identification. This will result in an unauthenticated Internet for everyone, undermining the fundamental human right to privacy (Article 7 of EU Charter of Fundamental Rights).
@EUCommission Parents protect children. State protects its authority.
@EUCommission that's stupid, the kids have parents they don't need the EU to tell them how to raise their kids
@EUCommission
You nicht forgot tiktok ?
@EUCommission oh is this a real account from the European commission? seems like a bad joke, !it is not my responsibility to raise other people's children, if they are not able to raise their children, it is not my fault this is literally a dystopian dictatorship. How much have the rich paid to move this forward?
@EUCommission
There's no need to implement an age verification system as the UK did or chat control, which would put sensitive data on risk for millons of EU citizens and residents, mass surveillance it's just a step closer to fascist's governments.
There's an easier solution to protect children against shady webs: DNS blockers, there's even the EU official alternative DNS4EU. I'd say promote and educate parents more to set that up on their children's devices and leave the rest of us be please.
@EUCommission do you think parents are incapable of protecting their own children?
By introducing ill-thought legislations with risks of privacy breaches (like the recent Discord one that already happened!) you're making it harder for children to be protected while compromising on their (and everybody else's) right to privacy.
As if it were not enough to have to protect against addiction, bad influence, and predators, parents now have to protect children against EU legislation as well.
@EUCommission stop chat control!
@EUCommission you are 100% wrong.
Parents should not let their kids alone on the Internet.
They dont let them run on the street alone, bit it is ok on the Internet?
That's just dumb.
@EUCommission And who will protect people from your "protection"? 🤔🙄
@EUCommission I know of a government that assaults kids, abducts them and even kills them on a regular basis. I also know that they do that with your support. Also, your neoliberal policies have in many cases undermined the social welfare of children in EU countries. We all know you don't give a flying fuck about children anywhere, so please cut the bs right away and say you want to surveil your citizens to create police states. Be honest once.
@EUCommission you want to keep kids safe. Me too :-). Let's give the Money you plan to spend on Mass Survailance to Organisations that Help Kids (and Patents)
@EUCommission not sure about replying MEH or BAH!
@EUCommission Age verification is just a massive surveillance of the users of the internet, pushed by far-right religious extremist from United States. You should require those websites to make family portals with connected accounts. Leave anyone else alone.
@EUCommission start with banning in-game ads. #gaming
@EUCommission Why are some of the worst child abuse friendly places missing from your list - Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok?
@EUCommission Yeah, right, what could possibly go wrong when we give EU bureaucrats a system that allows them to control the online activity of every European citizen? 🤡
@EUCommission please see what’s going on WhatsApp’s “Channels” area
@EUCommission This is a democratic anti-pattern.
If you want to protect children, protect everyone. That is easier to enforce and does not require mass surveillance. The platforms are putting everyone at risk, not just the children. Promote non-profit social media.
@EUCommission I don’t have kids and never will. Why do the Stasi department want me to send my details off to random private companies to lose in data leaks!? 🤔 Maybe parents should do their job and look after their kids and learn how. 🤷♂️
As long as age verification needs people to upload personal data to random services, were this data can be stolen: this is madness.
A system were a verification tequest is sent to an officual government page, that just answers this with "verified" would be something i am slightly ok with for some.
But as a mother of 2 Teens i do not see how this protects shit.
Parents need to watch their children and teach them properly.
Corporate greed harms the children.
@EUCommission Of course, nobody has anything against keeping children safe. Pretending that is just strawmanning.
But what you're talking about is actively harming children. Fuck off with that crap. The UK literally did this crap and you can see how well that went.
@EUCommission It's those kids who put gore online. 😎
@EUCommission is such an investigation planned for tabloid sales points (offline and online) as well …? 🤔
@EUCommission and then you have ideas of mass surveillance, like chat control? After the crazy idea, I'm not sure that anyone believes you, that your interests is actually protecting children. There is software for parents to limit, what children can do. Support European providers, that offer such things. Small children should not use Snapchat, the Apple store or Google play at all and for YouTube just a limited subset of videos.
@EUCommission you are building the horrible dystopia we deserve. I bow to you, our technocratic lords.
@EUCommission unsupervised kids shouldn't be online in the first place, neither should mass surveillance and censorship by means of forced age verification.
Parents should parent their children and not let any government or social media giant do it.
@EUCommission But take Chatcontrol out. A surveillance society has nothing to do with children safety.
@EUCommission Kids shouldn't be online in the first place, neither should mass surveillance and censorship by means of forced age verification.
@EUCommission
I will boycot any service that insists that I share my child's passport with them, and so should you. This blueprint does not protect children; it harms them. Stop it.
@EUCommission
You're trying to impose on others the kind of guardianship that MUST be on (caring) parents.
This is wrong at any level, and just an excuse to further increase surveillance.
Last but not least, the tech bros will be very pleased to "be forced" to collect even more data on everyone.
OK but have you tried "parenting" or restricting what children do instead of restricting what adults do?!
@EUCommission You know...when you work towards a goal it often matter more how you achieve it rather than simply achieving it. This is evil work hidding behind a noble goal. Be smarter and start working for your people.
@EUCommission An effort that goes nowhere.
@EUCommission educate the parents on how to properly use internet based media and how to parent.
Please stop selling to EU citizens these massive privacy abuses as safety measures for children.
@EUCommission Stop with this. The only thing you want is mass surveillance of EU citizens.
Chat Control gets repeatedly beaten to the ground. Nobody wants to be scanned or 'verified'.
Read the fucking room.
@EUCommission this while very important must not be an excuse for the governments to ignore citizens rights like privacy and secure communications.
@EUCommission
This is inseanly stupid...
@EUCommission As a parent my biggest worry for the safety of my children is that _you_ want to take away their right to secure their communication.
@EUCommission Now ask the parents, families and guardians whether they know how to keep kids safe, or whether they will just leave it to the profit seeking companies.
@EUCommission Oh my god, stop this age verification madness. It's parents' job to make sure their children don't access anything harmful! Literally nobody wants this!
