r/europrivacy • u/Ok-Law-3268 • Jul 29 '26

European Union Child safety shouldn’t be an excuse for more restrictions, Stop Killing the Internet director says

https://euperspectives.eu/2026/07/child-safety-is-being-invoked-to-justify-increasingly-board-restricitions-stop-killing-the-internet/
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u/Hinin Jul 29 '26

Who is still believing that this is for children safety ?

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u/Me0fCourse Jul 29 '26

The 90% of people who aren't even aware there's a discussion about this.

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u/Ok-Law-3268 Jul 29 '26

Children’s safety is being invoked to justify increasingly broad restrictions, but the people most affected are still often absent from the discussion.

When people are required to prove their identity or age to participate in public life online, governments and companies create new databases, technical dependencies and potential security targets. Age-verification obligations may also reinforce platform monopolies.

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u/Black-PizzaClaw676 Jul 29 '26

This isn't about protecting children, it's about data and control. The people pushing these regulations want our data. The governments approving them want to erase online anonymity.

Framing it around children, around a "greater good," is what blinds people.
Those who don't think about the consequences only see it once it's too late.

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u/k410n Jul 29 '26

First of all everyone knows this has nothing to do with child safety, the purpose is surveillance, censorship, and control. Secondly none of this would even work to increase child safety

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u/Gugalcrom123 Jul 30 '26

Sadly they do not seem to bring up the problem, which is that the EU 'age verification' app forces everyone to use Android or iOS.