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Freedom dividend:
Big (tech) companies who make billions out of (free) public information need to pay virtual shares for market access in Europe, that will be equally distributed among all citizens.

Also:
Neutral intermediaries (DGA) are a thing, in media too. One could build a reasonable EUDI and be done with bullshit like this.
I think that is what the EU tries to do, lol.

@EUCommission parents can set up custom profiles on their children's phones. Actually, you should probably make that mandatory and failing to do so should be punishable as negligence. Instead you want to undermine the privacy of every user in the EU with this age verification nonsense..

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@EUCommission Meta continues to hand off user verification to minimize their costs and burdens. California passed a law mandating that Operating Systems, not trillion dollar corporations, need to be the gatekeeper.

Meta needs to take responsibility for their bad service and not let them declare “not my problem, the OS said they were 13”. Lobbying here is clear cut and they’re trying to dodge their duty.

And I see the @EUCommission
fail to be immune toeta propaganda.so instead of forcing Meta to do it's thing, you fold under Metas filthy arguments that age verification is the task of the OS and not of the child molesting service provider.

#DigitalGrifters - #Meta. #GriftersGonnaGrift.
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@EUCommission Agreed that Meta are exploiting the young and addicting others.
But privacy is a human right so the solution to the problem is not to impose an eradication of privacy for everyone!

Age verification is removal of privacy. No age verification has resisted theft/leaks of data which makes the young and everyone more vulnerable.

@EUCommission Didn't need much science to "discover" it...
Now let's see how much of nothing will be done about it, over the next years.

@EUCommission The EU should fine Meta (or any other web property) a fine for violating the rules and then pay 1/2 the fine to the person who reported it. This will enlist an army of 12-year-old kids who sign up just to report Meta and collect a fee.

I suspect that Meta would find a way to keep the 12-year-old kids out if this happened.

@EUCommission This is a push for your bullshit #ageverification right?

@EUCommission https://link.europa.eu/yPBWgY

@EUCommission don't use this to push your age verification app down our throat. Not that I really care as I don't use those services, but a lot of people I care about use them. You have a lot of opportunities here: you can force them to be safer and more inclusive for everyone, as they earn money using really shady and hate-oriented practices; or you can push for libre alternatives like Mastodon and other fediverse options that doesn't put money over your citizens. 1/X

@EUCommission What about porn and scam forced to be viewed on Snapchat for several years ?

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THEN WHY is EU trying to destroy GDPR - the one law that actually helps keep kids and everyone else's data safe?

We need stronger privacy laws.
We need to attack the business model (these platforms farm kids attention for adrevenue) NOT users.

What we do NOT need is digital ID "age" verification. That's what these platforms want! It gives them free pass to exploit users more. AND that would end platforms like mastodon, while meta happily starts mass surveillance on our kids

@EUCommission Very good. now do something about THIS:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/17/microsoft-us-tech-firms-lobbied-eu-secrecy-rules-datacentre-emissions

@EUCommission but how can meta - and all other apps//pages with age limit - check without asking for an ID - which is asking (again) for something private, and imho much too far beyond privacy limits.

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Agreed: just ban them.

@EUCommission That's the job of the parents. Don't rely on giving the identity of EU citizens to Google to enforce privacy.

@EUCommission good finding.

Nevertheless, I do not think that vetting user information and making that vetted info accessible to companies who are in breach of the law and whose business model is based on extracting as-correct-as-possible user information is a good solution.

I am of course referring to age verification.

And before anyone mentions zero knowledge proofs: I doubt it will turn out that way.

@EUCommission just ban Meta and all other platforms hunger for citizens data and invasive algorithms. What's is bad for children is also bad for adults, instead ID checks that will invade Europeans privacy ban all the platforms that are unhealthy for the people.

@EUCommission nice catch. Ironically, it's Meta who spent tons of money lobbying for the age verification laws in the USA. It would seem "they can dish it, but not take it".

@EUCommission Whereas the what I believe is EU support for genocide of children under 13 in Middle East is not in breach of anything?

Also, banning people from communicating with other people based on their age, isn't that ageism discrimination? Freedom of speech? Ever heard of that?

And cooperating with a country led by at least an associate of rapist pedofile human trafficker gang is also not in breach of anything?

@EUCommission The link isn't clickable, by the way.

@EUCommission There are two things.

1. It shouldn't be META's responsibility in this case. You do not jail a store because they failed to keep the shop-lifters away.

2. On the other hand, if they are spying on any user (even not their users) then they are sure to have the age estimates of their users and thus be able to filter them.

From all the reasons, however, I found the inability to filter users that are underaged to be the least concerning.

@EUCommission yet parents are not keeping their children off the platform. So take your hands off my children EU.

@EUCommission Why don't you launch wide public campaign then? There are a lot of parents, who don't know they could (and should) restrict their children access to social applications. Moreover, I encountered teachers at public schools requiring children under 13 accounts in Messenger for contact purposes. They were surprised, when we pointed it is in breach with end user agreement and it is parents responsibility which apps children can use. That shouldn't happen.

@EUCommission Ma chissene importa?! Questi viola la privacy e la libertà di tutti i cittadini dell'Unione!

@EUCommission The solution would be to make metas services safe for users under 13. That would make it better for everyone. Doubling down on the age checks, makes us all more vulnerable.

@EUCommission Just ban them

@EUCommission well played. Keep it up! @HennaVirkkunen

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Even ignoring the whole "children under 13" topic, I don't think Meta was ever not in breach of a law or moral expectations

@EUCommission Could you make the link clickable please?

@EUCommission just ban Meta.