Worth reading re age-related restrictions on social media. Details the Australian legacy-media-led (who benefits?) campaigns & lack of benefits outside that group. As the push spreads:
“What is different about the European moment is the scale of expert opposition already assembled: a broad, cross-disciplinary consensus that the approach being contemplated is the wrong one.

“The Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights, Michael O'Flaherty, published a clear rebuke this February: "Banning children's access to social media shifts the responsibility for safety from the platforms that create the environment to the children who navigate it." He called on governments to prioritize binding legal duties, algorithmic transparency, and robust DSA enforcement before reaching for restrictions. The source of harm, he argued, is the platforms' design and incentives, not the children using them.

“Eurochild, the network representing children's rights organizations across Europe, put it with equal directness in its February 2026 position paper: "The choice is not simply between a 'ban' and 'no ban'. That framing obscures the real issue." Eurochild does not call for a blanket ban. It calls for a rights-based framework targeting platform business models — attention extraction, profiling, addictive design — rather than the children navigating them. Its core argument: "Age restrictions can never replace regulation or company responsibility."”

https://www.techpolicy.press/youve-been-murdoched-australias-teen-ban-offers-a-warning-for-europe/

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