EDRi on Nostr: 1/ 🛑 President Ursula von der Leyen’s #SOTEU announcement on age-gating and ...
1/ 🛑 President Ursula von der Leyen’s #SOTEU announcement on age-gating and banning children’s access to online spaces comes with no surprise.
📝 There is a fundamental problem with the approach: you won’t be making harmful platform safer by preventing young people from using them, you can only achieve that by regulating the platforms in the very first place.
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