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Jorge Candeias 22h ago

Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦

Estonia is correct. The responsibility to keep children safe falls on adults and platform operators, not on the kids. If social media isn't safe for children, it's not safe for adults either, because the safety this is about isn't about the content, but of what the platforms do with our data.
https://thenextweb.com/news/estonia-eu-child-social-media-ban-opposition

Estonia is the rare EU country opposing bans on children’s social media use

In short: Estonia and Belgium are the only two EU member states to have declined the Jutland Declaration, an October 2025 pan-European commitment to restrict children’s access to social media. Estonia’s ministers argue that age-based bans are unenforceable, that children will find ways around them, and that the correct approach is to enforce the GDPR against […]

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@osma And another article failing to properly mention that an age ban affects *everyone*. Also you, adult, will need to prove your age.

@DePemig @osma Exactly, especially as there’s currently no measure to prove age that can’t be turned into digital infrastructure for authoritarianism easily. It’d be ineffective at protecting children but potentially effective at stifling free speech.

Я⊛ḶḶ model ☭1d ago

the baltics know what's up. c'mon scandanavia, get with the program!

Alec Muffett 1d ago

@osma Estonia is only half correct, because they are still pushing for regulation of the platform as being the solution for child safety.

Marc 🐷🌏1d ago

@osma
Don't agree. Many parents don't care.

Governments don't allow children to smoke, so why not put a ban on SM for children?

el Celio 🇪🇺 🇺🇦1d ago

@marc_eu @osma
smoking is not safe for adults either.

Johann z. Baag (ej af Puss-B.)1d ago

@elCelio Indeed. And at least in Finland, the idea is that we want to ban smoking altogether. Slowly we make it more and more difficult for companies to market and sell smoking products, because we know they are not good for anyone.

Not so with social media. It’s good for anyone to connect with other people. We just want to remove the exploitation.

el Celio 🇪🇺 🇺🇦22h ago

@zenfin @marc_eu @osma

social media is the new global town square.

how much should it be controlled and regulated by private corporations?

Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦21h ago

RE: https://mas.to/@osma/116095472833326752

The editorial control by a corporation is what defines media, including social media. Nothing that is controlled by a private corporation can be a "town square", never mind a global one.
@elCelio @zenfin @marc_eu

el Celio 🇪🇺 🇺🇦20h ago

@osma @zenfin @marc_eu
yes, this is my point.

Tara L. Campbell 1d ago

@osma Thank you. Once again, governments/politicians will do everything but hold power to account. Far easier to pin the blame on, and control the behaviors of, the victims/vulnerable.

Sweet Home Alaberta 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽1d ago

@osma
It's Epstein logic where the sicko rich men are sheltered to continue their evil, and the kids are victimized by losing access.

@osma and with us.

Sanctorum 1d ago

@osma You’re almost there… but you’ve missed the core point.

Safety isn’t just about “what platforms do with data” … it’s about power asymmetry. Children are vulnerable because they lack agency, not because adults are equally exposed.

If everything is unsafe for everyone, you dilute responsibility. Adults choose… children don’t.

Regulation should reflect that difference, not erase it.

Count Holdem 1d ago

@osma Filtering is a form of "ban". It's basic #BehavioralScience, which there is far too little of.

Toni Aittoniemi 19h ago

@osma Correct. All this age restriction is just cope to avoid regulating the platforms themselves.

Either aomebody is looking for a payout, or more likely, afraid of the wrath of social media companies could pull on their election campaigns if they ’oppose’ them.

At least somebody still got some guts.

Lorraine Lee 19h ago

@osma Maybe there's something to that "digital republic" mystique.

∫∀⊂∅19h ago

@osma
I don’t know if we can call a country that turns over their educational system to chatGPT “correct”.
#bigtech #chatGPT #education #estonia #socialmedia #safety