Technology · Big Tech & Free Speech
Brussels wants to ban under-13s from social media using an app it designed itself, raising questions about a regulator that also builds the verification infrastructure it will police.
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Ursula von der Leyen's KIDS Act would bar under-13s from social media and hand parents Commission-designed 'mini accounts' for teenagers, replacing family judgment with a bloc-wide identity and access system.
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Ursula von der Leyen invited Canada to become the EU's first associate member in her Strasbourg address, and reporting since indicates neither the legal content nor the approval route has been defined.
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The Commission president used her Strasbourg address to propose a leaders' security forum with Britain, Norway, Canada and Ukraine, and conservative lawmakers in her own group dismissed it almost immediately.