The message from Europeans is clear: children deserve a digital world where they can grow up free, safe and protected.
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@EUCommission ah.... Safety, the best way to erode people's rights. Well played.
@theloopfarm @EUCommission so you're that kind of "father" that don't care about his children's safety.
Ok, you must be proud of yourself
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The message from Europeans is clear: children deserve a digital world where they can grow up free, safe and protected.
From harmful content and cyberbullying to addictive online designs, concerns about the risks children face online are growing across Europe.
Tech providers are responsible for the safety of their products and their safe use. Let us give childhood back to our children.
That is Europe's principle; that is the basis of the Digital Services Act.
@EUCommission without privacy thereโs no checks on the people in power. Privacy is the foundation of accountability, without it, power goes unchecked. Think of journalists or politicians who canโt do research without sitting power knowing about it if thereโs no privacy, look at China etc.
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The message from Europeans is clear: children deserve a digital world where they can grow up free, safe and protected.
From harmful content and cyberbullying to addictive online designs, concerns about the risks children face online are growing across Europe.
Tech providers are responsible for the safety of their products and their safe use. Let us give childhood back to our children.
That is Europe's principle; that is the basis of the Digital Services Act.
@EUCommission 92% wanting something is a one thing, but how many % do agree on which method?
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The message from Europeans is clear: children deserve a digital world where they can grow up free, safe and protected.
From harmful content and cyberbullying to addictive online designs, concerns about the risks children face online are growing across Europe.
Tech providers are responsible for the safety of their products and their safe use. Let us give childhood back to our children.
That is Europe's principle; that is the basis of the Digital Services Act.
@EUCommission absolutely!. Now start by scrutinizing Meta and Alphabet products designs and business models and practices!. Identify and ban those that expose children's safety and imperil their right to grow up free, safe and protected. We all know you have the funds, the human resources and expertise to do so and do it well. We are counting on you!
Just don't ever forget to put the burden on the perpetrators, not on the victims. That's the way it works, not the other way around.
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The message from Europeans is clear: children deserve a digital world where they can grow up free, safe and protected.
From harmful content and cyberbullying to addictive online designs, concerns about the risks children face online are growing across Europe.
Tech providers are responsible for the safety of their products and their safe use. Let us give childhood back to our children.
That is Europe's principle; that is the basis of the Digital Services Act.
@EUCommission Thanks to EC for our daily "Think of the children" dose, just in case. Perfect illustration today: the smartphone, the kids and the lock, what a nice way to set them (and the rest of us) "free".
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@onepict @EUCommission Yes, I agree. Please hold the actual service providers and big tech firms accountable that make lots of money off the citizens!
Thank you for your comments, @Numerfolt and @onepict.
Holding tech companies accountable is exactly what we are doing, and will do more of.
Check out our deep-dive on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEaEsJRENPE&t=2s -
The message from Europeans is clear: children deserve a digital world where they can grow up free, safe and protected.
From harmful content and cyberbullying to addictive online designs, concerns about the risks children face online are growing across Europe.
Tech providers are responsible for the safety of their products and their safe use. Let us give childhood back to our children.
That is Europe's principle; that is the basis of the Digital Services Act.
@EUCommission
Then enforce the laws already! And please stop this age verification bs... -
The message from Europeans is clear: children deserve a digital world where they can grow up free, safe and protected.
From harmful content and cyberbullying to addictive online designs, concerns about the risks children face online are growing across Europe.
Tech providers are responsible for the safety of their products and their safe use. Let us give childhood back to our children.
That is Europe's principle; that is the basis of the Digital Services Act.
@EUCommission the systems and policies that a designed to protect vulnerable people should apply to all people.
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@theloopfarm @EUCommission so you're that kind of "father" that don't care about his children's safety.
Ok, you must be proud of yourself@ASardinianAbroad @EUCommission
My kids get 2 hours a day on the internet. 20 minutes of that is educational. They have 1 hour of video games with friends.
We have their devices routed through content management systems that we control, that we understand and monitor.
What are you doing to protect your kids on the internet?
As an adult, I don't need corporations keeping my kids safe.
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@EUCommission absolutely!. Now start by scrutinizing Meta and Alphabet products designs and business models and practices!. Identify and ban those that expose children's safety and imperil their right to grow up free, safe and protected. We all know you have the funds, the human resources and expertise to do so and do it well. We are counting on you!
Just don't ever forget to put the burden on the perpetrators, not on the victims. That's the way it works, not the other way around.
Hello @gnemmi!
Yes, we are holding tech companies accountable. Our Digital Services Act gives us the legal means to do so. You can read more about it in this recent example:
https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-preliminarily-finds-meta-breach-digital-services-act-failing-prevent-minors-under-13 -
The message from Europeans is clear: children deserve a digital world where they can grow up free, safe and protected.
From harmful content and cyberbullying to addictive online designs, concerns about the risks children face online are growing across Europe.
Tech providers are responsible for the safety of their products and their safe use. Let us give childhood back to our children.
That is Europe's principle; that is the basis of the Digital Services Act.
@EUCommission
Protecting children, in addition to being a high priority for most people, is also one of the fastest and reliable ways of eroding human rights and freedoms. And the vast majority of measures proposed to protect children don't even do so effectively, they are just disguised schemes to increase the power of the state and the wealth of the already wealthy by leveraging some of the strongest human emotions to manipulate people into agree with policies not in their best interests. -
The message from Europeans is clear: children deserve a digital world where they can grow up free, safe and protected.
From harmful content and cyberbullying to addictive online designs, concerns about the risks children face online are growing across Europe.
Tech providers are responsible for the safety of their products and their safe use. Let us give childhood back to our children.
That is Europe's principle; that is the basis of the Digital Services Act.
@EUCommission
But not to be confused with surveillance -
The message from Europeans is clear: children deserve a digital world where they can grow up free, safe and protected.
From harmful content and cyberbullying to addictive online designs, concerns about the risks children face online are growing across Europe.
Tech providers are responsible for the safety of their products and their safe use. Let us give childhood back to our children.
That is Europe's principle; that is the basis of the Digital Services Act.
@EUCommission
In case you hadn't noticed, age verification is a trojan horse. Please make the perpetrators pay instead of EU citizens.
https://edri.org/our-work/why-age-verification-misses-the-mark-and-puts-everyone-at-risk/ -
The message from Europeans is clear: children deserve a digital world where they can grow up free, safe and protected.
From harmful content and cyberbullying to addictive online designs, concerns about the risks children face online are growing across Europe.
Tech providers are responsible for the safety of their products and their safe use. Let us give childhood back to our children.
That is Europe's principle; that is the basis of the Digital Services Act.
โTech providers are responsible for the safety of their products and their safe useโ
And this principle applies for *everyone*The products must be made safe - for everyone.
The providers must be made responsible - for everyone.
The profiteers must be accountable - to everyone.The solution isnโt to wall children off from the world, it is to go back to building safe, decent, accountable society - starting with the wealthiest and most powerful.
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The message from Europeans is clear: children deserve a digital world where they can grow up free, safe and protected.
From harmful content and cyberbullying to addictive online designs, concerns about the risks children face online are growing across Europe.
Tech providers are responsible for the safety of their products and their safe use. Let us give childhood back to our children.
That is Europe's principle; that is the basis of the Digital Services Act.
@EUCommission yea, I want children AND adults protected from exploitation and harm. But age verification is not going to help, it just gives commercial organisations and governments access to everyone's private information, making the whole mess worse, and not enabling children and adults to discover and use the tools they need to keep them safe, and also endangers all that information. Just one example, an abused child may not be able to access appropriate help without an abusing parent knowing
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The message from Europeans is clear: children deserve a digital world where they can grow up free, safe and protected.
From harmful content and cyberbullying to addictive online designs, concerns about the risks children face online are growing across Europe.
Tech providers are responsible for the safety of their products and their safe use. Let us give childhood back to our children.
That is Europe's principle; that is the basis of the Digital Services Act.
@EUCommission Then hold service providers accountable. Dont destroy privacy to increase totalitarian control.
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Thank you for your comments, @Numerfolt and @onepict.
Holding tech companies accountable is exactly what we are doing, and will do more of.
Check out our deep-dive on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEaEsJRENPE&t=2s@EUCommission @Numerfolt @onepict asking children and adults to identify themselves online isn't to hold tech companies responsible. Let's not implement this until the app uses ZKPs and has been thoroughly tested!
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The message from Europeans is clear: children deserve a digital world where they can grow up free, safe and protected.
From harmful content and cyberbullying to addictive online designs, concerns about the risks children face online are growing across Europe.
Tech providers are responsible for the safety of their products and their safe use. Let us give childhood back to our children.
That is Europe's principle; that is the basis of the Digital Services Act.
@EUCommission Are you trying to sell us mass surveillance again?
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@theloopfarm @EUCommission so you're that kind of "father" that don't care about his children's safety.
Ok, you must be proud of yourself@ASardinianAbroad @theloopfarm @EUCommission Why the ad hominem? Do you also want the state to ban all children from dangerous sports like bmx or horseback riding?
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@EUCommission Yes absolutely, but not with age verification please.
Hold providers like Meta and Alphabet to account.
@onepict @EUCommission it is obvious to most people, even if this particular phrasing is mine, that you cannot "big tech companies collecting PII" your way out of a "big tech companies collecting PII" problem.
The only real solution is for these companies to know less about us, and critically, to not know who is of age. Until you're ready to treat that as a core requirement to build the rest of your online privacy policy around, you're not taking the problem of surveillance capitalism seriously.
