We have opened formal proceedings under the Digital Services Act to investigate how Snapchat exposes minors to grooming, recruitment for criminal purposes, and illegal products.

[s1m0n4@ohai.social]

@EUCommission age verification is nothing less than institutionalized identity theft.

Citizens of democratic countries upholding the rule of law shouldn't be asked to forward their ID to private organizations that aren't held liable for the implemented security and the internal usage of this sensitive data.

Moreover countries like the USA now do a full check of SM contents for everyone entering the country. A burner phone won't be enough when the police can link other accounts to an ID.

[iusondemand@mastodon.uno]

@EUCommission not only minors: also adults. The techniques are dangerous. They are already illegal. We do not need to age restrict to let adult get toxic behaviours.

[twodpadsdown@mastodon.social]

I was on board untill "age verification"

[belladonnalily@mastodon.social]

@EUCommission

Btw there are better ways to protect children from online harm than with chatcontrol which include nationwide distributions of “Digital Self-Defense” materials, security-by-design apps, deleting reported materials immediatly and so forth.

You do know that if chatcontrol was reality, you also make it impossible for minors to anonymously seek help from f.e. abusive households and you only think of the children as moral ammunition to further your goal for online mass surveillance.

[gunstick@mastodon.opencloud.lu]

@EUCommission
Why are you not concerned about giving kids those horrible devices in the first place?

[pythonlinks@mastodon.social]

@EUCommission
Have you done anything about X and non-connsensual porn yet?