Age checks are only for minors. Parents have full control over their children's devices. If they wanted to, this could all be done without any new legislation - the EU makes some easy-to-use filtering software (whitelist, blacklist, time limits, etc.), parents can (if they want to) install it on their children's devices (it could even come preinstalled, with sensible defaults, since we can all agree on what is "harmful content"), and voila - the child is "protected".
That they instead chose to expand surveillance [1] tells me they have ulterior motives.
[1] They claim it'll be privacy-protecting. I'll believe it when I see it.
Not all parents are responsible. FB, Google, and others have shown no desire to combat mass manipulation or to combat the psychological harm their services can do. It is appropriate for society to force the issue.
gasull|9 months ago
like_any_other|9 months ago
That they instead chose to expand surveillance [1] tells me they have ulterior motives.
[1] They claim it'll be privacy-protecting. I'll believe it when I see it.
redczar|9 months ago
fuzzfactor|9 months ago
It's always possible that a more accure translation into common English would be "not as privacy-compromising as it could be".
JPLeRouzic|9 months ago
Do you have experience as a parent with teens?
unknown|9 months ago
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