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.
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Tras la respuesta de la Comisión Europea, el movimiento sigue adelante para intentar proteger tus videojuegos:
🇪🇺 UE: Estan preparando la base para un informe por iniciativa propia en el Parlamento Europeo y adaptando la Ley POG a una futura legislación europea. Además, se está trabajando con políticos para decidir qué propuesta legislativa abordar primero.
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🚨🇪🇺 BRUSELAS QUIERE EL HISTORIAL DE BÚSQUEDAS EN GOOGLE DE LOS EUROPEOS
La Comisión Europea ha ordenado a Google que abra su mina de datos. Bajo el artículo 6(11) de la Ley de Mercados Digitales, Bruselas exige que Alphabet comparta vía API consultas, clics, rankings y comportamiento de los usuarios con motores rivales, e incluso con chatbots de IA. La consulta pública cerró el 1 de mayo y la decisión final llegará el 27 de julio. La etiqueta es "fomentar la competencia". El contenido es otro.
Lo que viajará por ese caño es una radiografía conductual: qué tecleas, dónde, en qué dispositivo, qué resultados ves, dónde haces clic, cuánto te detienes, cuándo regresas. Lo llaman "anonimización", pero el caso AOL de 2006 ya demostró que con cuatro búsquedas se identifica a una persona. Y los receptores aún no están definidos del todo. La misma institución que escribió el RGPD construye ahora un canal para redirigir el dato más íntimo que produce un europeo.
Privacidad sacrificada en nombre del mercado.
Fuentes: https://t.co/Lz0zR03tow
Woman ARRESTED in the United Kingdom over CHIBI ART from 2011!
A husband posted on Reddit saying that his wife had been detained by UK police because of chibi drawings she made in between 2008-2011.
She is American, and when she created the artwork she was living in the United States. She has been living in the UK since 2012. The husband says all of their equipment was seized and is asking for legal help.
In the comments, part of the community doesn’t believe the story, while others claim that “the wife must have done something more than just drawing ecchi chibis” and that he still doesn’t know what it is.
This case comes shortly after a VTuber claimed she was arrested for drawing ecchi.
EU Vice-President “suggests”restricting VPNs to prevent citizens from circumventing EU's age-restrictions of the Internet
EU Vice-President Henna Virkkunen is helping roll out a new EU age verification app. But the app can be bypassed with simple tools like a VPN
When a reporter asked how the EU will stop kids from using VPNs to get around the rules, Virkkunen said:
“It’s difficult, of course, to have the technological solutions that there’s no way to circumvent … it’s also an important part of next steps to look at [the issue] that it shouldn’t be circumvented.”
🚨Christine Lagarde presiona fuerte para IMPONER su euro digital. Habilitará la vigilancia masiva, el control programable del gasto y la censura financiera, erosionando la privacidad y la libertad individual.
🚨🇪🇺 LA UE ACELERA LA APP QUE CONVERTIRÁ TU IDENTIDAD EN INFRAESTRUCTURA
La Comisión Europea ha pisado el acelerador. Esta semana ha recomendado a los Veintisiete que desplieguen su app de verificación de edad antes del 31 de diciembre de 2026, y España figura entre los siete países pioneros junto a Francia, Italia, Grecia, Irlanda, Chipre y Dinamarca. El argumento oficial es proteger a los menores. La realidad es que Bruselas está construyendo, pieza a pieza, la infraestructura de identidad digital del continente.
El sistema exige vincular pasaporte o DNI al teléfono. La app responderá a las plataformas con un sí o un no, pero el credencial subyacente es tu identidad gubernamental. Y aquí asoma el problema serio: en abril, el consultor Paul Moore tumbó las protecciones de la aplicación en menos de dos minutos. La Comisión parcheó lo más visible y ahora declara el producto «listo para producción». Una vez tendidos los raíles, no se detendrán en el «mayor de 18». Vendrán mensajería cifrada, prensa, opinión incómoda. Lo llaman protección. Se parece más a un punto único de control.
Fuente: https://t.co/LEYxZd3ucb