Young Fogelström

Co-Founder Devay & Senior Consultant

[Young Fogelström @Fogelstroem]

Why bother with just an App, just make a ‘state phone’ that fulfills all requirements and forbid all other phones. For example, establish a ‘Ministry of Communications’ and something that checks that everything communicated is permitted. Let’s call it Glavlit.

[Paul Walsh @Paul__Walsh]

Ursula von der Leyen has confirmed that everyone in the EU will need to use the EU's app for identity authentication before being able to access or post on social media websites.

🇪🇺 As an expert in online child safety, I am here to expose the misinformation and misdirection in von der Leyen's statements.

Today von der Leyen said:

"This is not about whether children can access social media, it is about whether social media can access our children".

💡The first part is true. This isn't about children. It's about surveillance and combating political dissent. A state that can't control its own citizens is more dangerous than a state rife with criminals. The second part is a PR soundbite that politicians are using like a campaign slogan straight out of 1984.

🇪🇺"The question is no longer if children face risks online, but what can we do to give children a safer start online".

💡No. You can't give children a "safer start" online any more than you can offline. In the offline world, the government doesn't enforce curfews or ban children from entering liquor stores, bars or restaurants. That's a parent's responsibility. The digital world should be no different.

🇪🇺"The age verification app is one of the tools to get it done".

💡This is a contradiction because she also said "It won't be foolproof".

🇪🇺"It's easy to use, it is privacy preserving and it is open source".

💡The app was compromised as soon as it was released. "Privacy-preserving" age verification is an oxymoron. You can't verify a person's age without verifying their identity. Where or how that age is shared afterwards is irrelevant.

🇪🇺"This is basically about putting back the power into the hands of parents".

💡More from 1984. The EU is doing the opposite. Parents are having their authority stripped by politicians who think they know better. Many parents are capable and unaffected by peer pressure, and they know how to use parental controls to block any app classified as 13+. Some teens are safe, their parents trust them, and the state has no business overruling that trust.

🇪🇺"We don't give our children keys to the car before they have their licence"

💡Comparing an app to a car is a false equivalence used to justify mass surveillance. Governments don't decide when a young person is ready for car keys, guardians do.

💡Forcing every adult and child into a biometric checkpoint just to use an app or website is not licensing drivers. It's the state seizing everyone's keys, locking the garage, and forcing every driver to ask a private company for permission to take a drive.

💡 This is a gross, unethical overreach that strips authority from parents while imposing state sanctioned identity verification on every adult who doesn't even have a child.

💡Additionally, people who pass a test, obtain a licence and drive a car aren't forced to use an app to constantly authenticate their suitability to drive.

🇪🇺"We do not let them buy alcohol until they are legally allowed"

💡False equivalence. We don't force every person to show ID at a shopping mall entrance just because a few people might buy alcohol with a meal at a restaurant. Some parents are okay with their 12 year-old going to the mall with friends while others aren't. Either way, it's their choice. Whatever irresponsible decisions some parents might make, every adult in the country shouldn't be forced to pay the price.

🇪🇺"It won't be foolproof"

💡This is all the proof we need to show that the EU and every government know that banning social media for teens won't protect them. When pressed by journalists about VPNs being used to circumvent a ban, politicians always state the ban isn't a silver bullet and will take time. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan went as far as to say "we know it's not the solution".

💡Either age verification works, or it doesn't. As a technical expert in this space, I can tell you there are no additional steps to take and no progress to be made. Either the approach does what it is supposed to do, or it's not fit for purpose. If they claim a bulletproof solution is coming, it can only mean one thing. They intend to ban or restrict VPNs to people who verify their identity.

🇪🇺"It will take time to invite the cultural change that is already taking shape in our society, just as it took time to outlaw drink driving, just as it took time to use seatbelts in the cars. Great change never happens overnight, but when it comes to our safety it is always worth it".

💡Comparing a social media ban and age verification to seatbelts is a completely broken analogy. Seatbelts are a safety feature that protects children while allowing them to travel in a car. A ban doesn't give kids a seatbelt. It kicks them out of the car entirely.

💡Instead of supporting parents who want to guide their own children through the digital world, this heavy-handed law strips away parental authority by banning the apps and websites that many parents are perfectly fine with and actively monitor.

💡Furthermore, enforcing these bans requires biometric age verification, which means forcing millions of adult citizens to scan their IDs, faces or credit cards just to browse the internet. That isn't a common-sense traffic law.

💡It's a digital checkpoint on every street. True safety means teaching kids how to navigate the digital world safely with real guardrails and parental guidance, not burning down digital spaces for everyone under the guise of protection.

🇪🇺☠️ The EU wants to ban teens from social media so every person is forced to verify their identity before they can read, share or post anything online. In their words, this is to protect children from dangerous content.

🇪🇺☠️ The EU wants to enforce "Chat Control" so every app has to monitor everything people say privately inside it, including apps with end-to-end encryption. In their words, this is to protect children from dangerous criminals.

💡Where this ends

🇪🇺 "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever".

George Orwell, 1984.

[Young Fogelström @Fogelstroem]

@Stilla01 Ibland rapporter de inte i den ordning saker sker, då får man också en skev bild av verkligheten.

[Young Fogelström @Fogelstroem]

@vasuman Careful or we are limited to Sonnet 4.6 😂

[Young Fogelström @Fogelstroem]

Sounds like ha Harley-Davidson to me 😂

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Using OpenClaw is basically is like driving your own Ferrari (that you have to be a mechanic for yourself) and it's broken down all the time, but gives you the time of your life

vs driving a reliable Honda (Hermes Agent)
vs riding the bus (Claude / ChatGPT)

[Sofie Löwenmark @SofieLowenmark]

Om vi bara tagit pennorna och penslarna från Vilks. Om vi bara förbjuder Paludan. Om vi bara hänger ner 1 foto av Elisabeth Wallin. Om bara Paty inte visat karikatyren och om bara Theo van Gogh inte gjort filmen. Om Charlie Hebdo inte. Om Rushdie inte bara. Om bara ingen. Aldrig.

[Young Fogelström @Fogelstroem]

Like fine music in the morning

[Commentary - Sowell Economics @sowelleconomics]

Once again, this is what our country needs. Javier Milei fired 50,000 government employees, cut the government by 30%, and reduced the government ministries from 18 to 8, and achieved positive fiscal results.

Talk about cutting costs.

Viva la libertad! @JMilei

[Young Fogelström @Fogelstroem]

Tog ju bara 10 år och två krig innan uppfattningen ändrades om Ryssland men man har ju fortfarande ingen hållbar linje med tanke på resurser och styrka 🤪 där fladdrar man runt med populistiska idéer och känslor.

[Josefin Utas @JosefinUtas]

Vår syn på Kina har inte hängt med verkligheten. Kina forskar nu, innoverar, producerar och dominerar redan inom teknikområden. Min spaning: Hur vi ska förhålla oss till Kina kommer bli konfliktfråga i politiken framöver.

Viktig text av @PatrikKronqvist: https://t.co/ONAvfX9gfg

[Young Fogelström @Fogelstroem]

@Markfry809 Personal feelings have higher priority than national interests? Takaichi Sanae handles situation regardless of insults or flatters.

[Young Fogelström @Fogelstroem]

@apannilsson2 Studien är väl gjorde genom att fråga svenskar vad de tycker, inte vad någon faktiskt är?!

[Young Fogelström @Fogelstroem]

@nina_fogelstrom

[Young Fogelström @Fogelstroem]

@disclosetv What did you learn from this Merz?

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Stephen Ireland, who targeted me with endless abuse on here because I oppose the chemical castration of children and the removal of protected spaces for women and girls, has just been sentenced to 30 years in jail for child rape.

[Young Fogelström @Fogelstroem]

@TDN72 Tyngdpunkten ligger nog på om de är kritiska eller inte. Ställa frågor ger ju olika effekt. De kan vara kritiska i form av att det förväntade svaret kritiserar ena eller andra sidan. Men sådant vet ni säkert.

[Young Fogelström @Fogelstroem]

@clashreport He is just talking EU’ish to Europeans - words and no action - Trump knows that 😂

[Young Fogelström @Fogelstroem]

@desireefixler What to expect from Head of HR? 🤪

[Mojdeh Zandieh @MojdehZandieh]

BBC Persian har en lång och mörk historia av att förvränga, ljuga och försköna vissa terrorister. De har lagt voice-over och översatt Pete Hegseth, USA:s försvarsminister. De har översatt ordet ”regim” till ”folk” på persiska.

Det blir förstås en enorm skillnad mellan att säga ”regimen” och ”folket” när han pratar om vilka som nu dödats.

@bbcpersian tror ni fortfarande att det är 1979 och att ni kan ljuga utan konsekvenser och manipulera iranier? Den här gången är vi vakna. Vi är inte våra föräldrar. Varför förstår ni inte?

#AyatollahBBC #IranRevolution2026 #Iran

[Young Fogelström @Fogelstroem]

@KristerThelin Knappast. Kina har för lite att vinna vs kostnad.

[Young Fogelström @Fogelstroem]

@GuntherEagleman But they promised to use those bills for nice good things 🤪

[Young Fogelström @Fogelstroem]

@hanna_tehrani 😂

[Young Fogelström @Fogelstroem]

@Pasi_Basileios … men det var viktigt att berätta för världen att det var planerat annars vet man ju inte vad som kunnat hända 😂