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Virkkunen said the Commission will also establish a European co-ordination mechanism to ensure consistency as member states implement their own national age verification schemes, which currently vary significantly in approach and minimum age thresholds.

The app arrives as at least a dozen European countries, including the UK and Norway, have enacted or are actively considering legislation setting minimum age limits for social media, typically between 13 and 16 years.

Part of a global lobbying effort as Canada’s governing party, the Liberal Party of Canada, is also discussing age verification simultaneously, as are a number of US states.

PieFed here, don’t see the link to the article either.

I see the image though.

I watched the video included with the article. One of those poor, poor seniors was asked whether she was kept informed. She said no, saying she only gets updates from the internet and her Facebook.

I’m not the first to ever say it, but there’s a clear lack of infrastructure when someone still turns to the very same company’s platform for updates and barely knows what’s going on. There’s no respect for community here, no involvement of stakeholders, no thought to the people who live there. For what? A corporate installation that may be built on fuddy duddy accounting to keep up appearances for an AI Bubble?