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[evimily@fedi.katze.sh]

@EUCommission "think of the children" is always a very convenient excuse for establishing a surveillance state. There is no way of doing this without establishing a central authority over who is worthy of participating in society. How about holding adults responsible if they fail to protect children from bullying and similar negative influences, instead of locking them out of spaces that to many of us (queer people especially) has been a lifeline? The vast majority of abuse children experience is from their immediate surroundings and all this will do is give children affected by this one less space where they might get help.

[jm_rtr@chaos.social]

@EUCommission They were close enough to identify the problem. Then they've fucked up…

[katzenberger@tldr.nettime.org]

@EUCommission

#AgeVerification is not a "solution", but both a convenient cop-out for you, so that you cowards needn't address platform regulation;

and a much welcome vehicle to amass more and more data of every single person, ready to use for you and even more fascist governments to come.

Nobody believes you.

[eickot@mastodon.social]

@EUCommission the solution is always the same, it's called education! No stupid laws to make opensource impossible, or to allow goverments to control his citizens. Control was never the solution, and it will never be!

[m_berberich@infosec.exchange]

@EUCommission

You are not trying to protect children.

You are trying to control the internet, force everyone to provide identification.
Provide certified authenticated users to U.S. bigtech-companies for better targeted ads, crowd out marginalised and vulnerable groups and prime the internet as a mean of control for fascist.

[multifact@floss.social]

@EUCommission Please, stop using the excuse of child protection to remove EU citizens right to privacy.

Privacy is fundamental to protect civil rights and children alike.

[katzenberger@tldr.nettime.org]

@hllizi

Underrated comment.

@EUCommission

[shaman007@mastodon.andreybondarenko.com]

@EUCommission you're most useless cowards that serve against people's needs. You will cover any athrocity with "pRotecT teH cHildren!"

[jaystephens@mastodon.social]

@EUCommission
The loss of privacy this entails will damage society far more than any benefits.
The children you aim to protect will grow up in a normalised surveillance state.
Rethink.

[csepp@merveilles.town]

@ivolimmen @EUCommission We should be educating parents tbh.

[falcennial@mastodon.social]

@EUCommission

a child's right to privacy is a pre-requisite of child safety.

you cannot protect children when you take away childrens' right to privacy.

your agenda destroys child privacy which means you are unambiguously against child safety.

you are making a wrong decision and you are making it knowingly. the people will never forget your actions or your names.

[quincy@chaos.social]

@EUCommission

you'd be well advised to read and heed the replies from concerned citizens, or become irrelevant.

internet is not a "playground" and there's a difference between "safe" and an unfree society, which will be the outcome of this.

go after big tech instead. they're not partners. they're the ones endangering the children.

[tthbaltazar@chaos.social]

@EUCommission
Restrict the harassers, not children's access to online spaces.

[gamiel72@troet.cafe]

@EUCommission you're just trying to protect kids right? What could go wrong?
Oh! The fact that ALL laws you've tried to pass so far violate the EU charter of fundamental rights , especially the right to privacy.
So is it really protecting children? Or just trying to control people?

[drjlecter@beige.party]

@EUCommission what you should do is punish hate speech and force online platforms to protect their users, not prevent children from community and information they would never get otherwise. You're harming lgbtq+ kids especially and paving the path for online control and surveillance.

[teckids@bildung.social]

@EUCommission

Please consult with experts who actually work with children and youth online, and ideally with children and youth themselves. As such, we clearly say: You are on the wrong track.

We are here to help if you are looking for expert interventions regarding the topic!

[ivolimmen@toot.community]

@csepp @EUCommission Not all parents bother or have the time... sad but true

[falcennial@mastodon.social]

@EUCommission

if you really want to talk about protecting children then make it legal to hunt domestic abusers for sport.

if you want child safety then create a universal basic income that includes money for all children so they will have a financial safety net their entire life.

if you really want to protect children then force USA to expedite Trump and the rest of the Epstein list and hang them to death for their crimes against children.

we all know right from wrong.

[leavex@mastodon.social]

@EUCommission Regulating the business model of big tech social media, particularly targeted advertising and algorithmic manipulation, is much more difficult.

Why not remove the incentives for platforms to maximize engagement through outrage or addictive algorithms?

The answer is that it takes courage.

[threesigma@mastodon.online]

@EUCommission
Right, so your mission is to keep kids from talking to other kids? Or to monitor all their conversations for bullying? What exactly are you going to stop?