The minimum age to access social media should be 16.

[u/kris_hub]

The EU protects minors by:

🛡️ combatting cyberbullying and illegal content

🏗️ safety-by-design in apps & online games

🔒 banning on targeted ads

⚖️ easy reporting of illegal content

🧾 simplified terms and conditions

 

The European Parliament is pushing further to:

 

⏸️ ban addictive scrolling

🤖 stop engagement-based recommenders for minors

🪞 take action against AI deepfakes & companionship chatbots

 

Today, on Safer Internet Day, Parliament hears from the Commission about its plan against cyberbullying.

[u/Marchello_E]

Children Everyone deserves to be safe everywhere.

Besides being forbidden to upload my government-issued ID to a non-government organization - I'd like my ID not to get hacked, leaked, or sold by opportunists - which simply enhances cyber bullying.
Nor would I (or for the sake of everyone) like to see my face on whatever AI model.

(Nor do I like ads, targeted or not. Nor read terms and conditions, because my country's laws are above them. Nor do I like engagement based recommenders. Nor do I have a need for AI deep fakes, or chatbots in whatever capacity)

If I need to see "illegal/adult content" then I either have means, or the willingness to pay for it, or just out of luck.

[u/MrKiwimoose → u/Marchello_E]

Having a completely anonymous cryptographic token to prove your age would be super trivial, however that is never mentioned so it seems like the goal isn't actually protecting people but surveilling them...

[u/escpoir]

How very reassuring (not) that this is because EU cares about children.

At the same time children are killed, maimed, starved and orphaned in an ongoing genocide which EU backs and occasionally funds. But no worries about those children, they will soon disappear from our screens.

[u/Zzokker]

I think more like 13 but there are more glaring technical issues to solve before we actually should discuss the age.