Leak: EU Commission to pitch social media restrictions for under-15s

Honestly I think it's good that there are more guide rails and safeguards implemented for kids.

As with any rules and regulations there will be loop holes and big corporations will still try to get away with as much as they can. But blocking the most harmful mechanisms and content while still keeping access open seems very reasonable.

> tech companies would be required to make their digital services safe by design

Sometimes I think even adults would benefit from rules blocking addictive features and mechanisms.

The harmful aspects of social media are their algorithms and their dopamine-exploitative design patterns.

Regulate and penalise this! Put some effort in actually targeting the source of the problem affecting children and adults alike.

Don't put the onus on users having to share very sensitive (and at risk of leaking!) information in order to prove they're not kids. Not to mention how easy it is to bypass with a VPN.

YouTube is the video museum and is crucial for formation. Badly maintained, but it is where we find cultural video material and its access in civilized societies can only be granted.

> From three to 13, children can access child-friendly services under adult supervision

At a fraction of that age, some of us had been reading masterpieces without any supervision.

The article does not seem to tackle the elephant in the room: how to ensure that total, ___total___ anonimity is granted to users. (Recent news were about needing a google or apple account and certified device in europe to access the sites. Of course, we do not sign contracts with google or apple.)

Again, the spread information remains about forbidding access to resources that instead must be maximixed in use (the video museum); about feeding kids what could be trash for direly deficient minds instead of the real intellectual material we absorbed even when small children; the biggest questions about Principles (Dignity, the Decency of society - ref. anonimity) remain unclarified when they are most important.

That infra-humanity must be wiped off history.

It is because of them that the trust in Europe is at an all time low and that nationalist political movements are gaining so much traction in European countries.

They don't respect the citizen will but then pretend to not understand when far right is winning election all over Europe.