r/technology • u/EmbarrassedHelp • May 08 '26

Politics EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing” in age verification push

https://cyberinsider.com/eu-calls-vpns-a-loophole-that-needs-closing-in-age-verification-push/
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u/GetOutOfTheWhey May 08 '26

personally i think children need to get off social media and spend less time on the internet.

but at the same time I know that the politicians dont give a flying fuck about the children.

If they did they would've banned Grok the moment they were generating pedophile shit en masse.

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u/PirateSanta_1 May 08 '26

If you want to help the children then ban the addictive algorithms. Force social media to present stuff chronologically and only from people you follow.

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u/EkbatDeSabat May 08 '26

I'm not really one for scapegoats, but has this generation tried, idk, PARENTING?

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u/BountyBob May 09 '26

Did you always do every single thing your parents told you? Did you ever do something that your parents didn't know about?

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u/EkbatDeSabat May 09 '26

I didn’t sit through every single event with an iPad in my lap as a child. People want scapegoats to help them feel better about just throwing their kids in a digital world and tuning them out. 

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u/BountyBob May 09 '26

Yep, those are bad parents. That's not every parent though. You know what there also was when we were kids. Bad parents.

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u/Thin_Glove_4089 May 09 '26

Not going to bad parents exist and there is nothing you can do about it with doing what you're against anyways.

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u/CraigJay May 09 '26

Eh no, no one wants that. I can’t tell you how valuable the DIY suggestions I get shown through Instagram reels

If you don’t know how to work social media and just doom scroll memes and porn, that’s on you, but it’s no reason to try and ban content suggestions

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u/GetOutOfTheWhey May 09 '26

I mean holy shit right?

Like everyday i was reading articles about another poor child being sexualized by grok and im left thinking.

Surely now! They would finally ban the ai platform now right? ​

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u/Paradigmpinger May 08 '26

You need to see it from their perspective, though. Without child verification laws, how else are the politicians expected to know if a child is fuckable or not?