Hi everyone here are various links for german and english speakers to read, some screenshots that shed some insight about the social media ban in australia aswell edris insight about the ongoing trilogue. And here is a huge mediafire file available for download.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/7sbu9pve6whjdko/the+ongoing+trilogue+saga.zip/file

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-10/queensland-proposed-laws-crime-children-ankle-monitors/106126136

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/social-media-verbot-fuer-jugendliche-in-kraft-getreten-100.html

https://edri.org/our-work/csa-regulation-document-pool/

https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/usa-touristen-sollen-social-media-aktivitaeten-der-letzten-fuenf-jahre-offenlegen-a-2605ca62-3a55-43df-8fcd-7d3071edb27a

https://noyb.eu/en/eu-us-data-transfers-time-prepare-next-breakup

https://netzpolitik.org/2025/internes-dokument-eu-staaten-fordern-ein-jahr-vorratsdatenspeicherung-fuer-internet-dienste-wie-messenger/

Also Edri published an article on november where they explain why age verification won't solve any problems with online harm and the possible consequences of data breaches and many more examples.

https://edri.org/our-work/why-age-verification-misses-the-mark-and-puts-everyone-at-risk/

@belladonnalily

Meanwhile on X you can bypass the phone number verification to get premium verification if you make the purchase through a gift from another account that is already verified.

And apparently, a phone number can be used to verify a maximum of 10 accounts... They are not achieving anything with these unnecessary verifications. What they are achieving in the case of X is that the best-quality bots invest money in them and that all users have poor privacy.

Source: https://medium.com/@ItsNotNicole/twitter-x-premium-account-verification-bypass-vector-of-sorts-gift-subscriptions-10487844f976

@sugar

To be honest I haven't used twitter/X before but I used to have a Facebook account that I deleted around august/september not just because of shitty privacy settings (which they have btw) but because it was mentally draining me alot the more I visited the site.
I do know that FB also has a function with adding a phone number but even that's something I don't like to do since I'm always paranoid when some unknown number calls me.