19.9.2026
Press conference on the EU KIDS Act, 19.9.2026
To be absolutely clear: The "EU KIDS Act" is NOT aimed at shielding children!
The real target is to down ALL citizens in the EU and to force them to no longer be anonymous in the Internet, and of course, are continued to be exploited by the criminals' mechanics.
The "EU KIDS Act" is utter Nazi dreck.
The KEY argument by the politicians is that the Internet companies apply bad mechanics.
Yes, it is true: the Internet companies are vile organized crime.
But instead of outlawing the criminal practices of the Internet companies, the EU downs all citizens and forces them to obey the criminal practices.
This is not the first time such a manoeuvre is committed!
Some years ago, when the targeting and tracking of the Internet surfers was a topic, the politicians did not outlaw that criminal practice.
No, the politicians forced the surfers to EACH TIME THEY ARE ASKED ABOUT THE NAZI COOKIE DRECK to accept or stay out!
In case you did not realize: Somewhen this year, not very long ago, the first internet servers began showing the surfers the shitty cookie forms with the words "necessary" or "legitimate". But that is a fraud. It is NOT about what is TECHNICALLY necessary to maintain the web-site. NO! They sell your data to tracking companies.
They show you the word "necessary" (which means technically necessary [despite cookies are NOT necessary for running a web-site]) but in reality sell your data. That is a clear breach of the previous state.
Do look closely at what they try to do. THEY COMMIT ONE FRAUD AFTER THE OTHER. And the EU politicians fully support them.
The EU politicians are a crime gang. They are an organized crime organization, getting paid with BILLIONS of Euros by the citizens - and do nothing but downing the 340 million EU citizens so the companies can exploit them.
The EU is organized crime, it must be abolished.
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Paul Walsh @Paul__Walsh
Ursula von der Leyen announced this week that everyone in the EU must use the official EU age verification app to verify their age before they can log into or post on social media and other digital services.
As an expert in online child safety, I'm here to expose the disinformation in each von der Leyen's statements. See below.
🇪🇺 The EU Kids Act is a pretext designed to enforce mandatory digital identity verification on everyone in Europe. The proposed legislation applies to any digital service featuring feeds, user generated content, or messaging:
Social media networks, video platforms, online gaming services, AI tools, and media streaming apps like Spotify. (@TimSweeneyEpic)
Under the proposal, digital services must enforce age restrictions across strict tiers. Tech companies must mandate age verification across all accounts to enforce these tiers legally.
When Australia introduced its social media ban, the government conceded it failed because platform level age checks weren't reliable. They now reject age estimation as inadequate and shifted to demanding "robust" age checking.
💡 If you eliminate every unproven estimation method, you're left with exactly 1 functional mechanism: identity verification. There's not other way to ensure age checking is "robust".
No government wants to admit citizens must prove their real identity just to access apps and basic streaming services like Spotify, so they hide behind the ambiguous phrase "robust age checking". This language is now used across Australia, the US, and Ireland to mandate identity checks while avoiding the public backlash of calling it what it is. I will research to see where else it's being used.
Below is what Ursula von der Leyen told the European Parliament in Strasbourg along with my analsyis:
🇪🇺 "Today, much of this power has been taken out of the hands of parents... What our children need is time... But when a child has a smartphone, all of this is taken away."
💡 This framing falsely presents smartphones as uncontrollable. Apple and Google built free OS controls into iOS and Android settings, covering virtually every smartphone on the market.
These controls achieve every legitimate safety objective without collecting personal data or processing state credentials.
💡 Millions of parents use these parental controls to enforce screen time curfews, block app installations, and restrict communication.
💡 These settings operate at the device level. Teens can't bypass them when protected with a passcode.
To bypass this technical reality, the European Commission uses public grief to shut down logical analysis:
🇪🇺 "Day and night, parents see the costs, loss of sleep, anxiety, even self-harm, and in a growing number of cases, even fatal tragedies... a 14-year-old girl living in Belgium who took her life exactly one month ago, victim of bullying online... Honourable members, enough is enough."
💡 Citing personal tragedies replaces software engineering facts with emotional rhetoric. State laws and age gates don't alter human behaviour or prevent online harassment. Regulators exploit grief to pass surveillance legislation without explaining how the underlying software mechanisms operate.
The Commission outlines specific age tiers to restrict access:
🇪🇺 "In sum, no social media under the age of 13. No personal account under the age of 15. That means from 13 to under 15, only mini accounts set up and supervised by parents or guardians with limited features and time restriction to one hour a day. And between 15 and 18, safe design will be an obligation for the platforms."
💡 Enforcing age tiers forces tech companies and service providers to rebuild their architecture around total access control. The must disable self-service account creation, purge unverified accounts, build supervised parental workflows, strip algorithmic feeds, and enforce strict session cutoffs.
💡 Social networks operate on open interaction algorithms that inherently expose people to unvetted content. Because software can't dynamically filter these risks for minors, tech companies must block access for everyone until a person proves their real identity.
💡 It's not just about social networks. They want the same bans for almost everything, including games and stream services. Even Spotify because it's possible for customers to message people.
The Commission claims its proposed zero knowledge proof app protects personal privacy:
🇪🇺 "Age will be verified using EU certified tools like our age verification app. This app is built on zero knowledge proof. That means that the platform only learns one single thing, and that's whether you're old enough to allow access or not."
💡 This framing describes what an app or service receives while hiding what everyone must give up. A zero knowledge proof provides a mathematical confirmation, but that confirmation requires an authoritative issuer. Before the app generates a proof, a state approved entity must verify the person's real identity.
The Commission frames this shift as a victory against tech corporations:
🇪🇺 "I am aware that many perceive the power of Big Tech as overwhelming and impossible to roll back. I disagree... So we do not accept this. We are reversing the burden of proof. Now platforms will have to prove to us that they are safe. Because this is not about our minors accessing social media. It is about when and how we allow social media to access our minors."
💡 Social networks don't access children; parents hand smartphones to children. Reversing the burden of proof forces everyone to verify their identity.
The European Commission confirmed the broader scope of this mandate:
🇪🇺 "We also know that not only minors are at risk. Addictive design, for example, are harming everyone. This is why we need a wider framework too, the Digital Fairness Act that we will propose in autumn."
🚨 Child safety is merely the initial wedge. The Digital Fairness Act expands state mandated identity verification to adults across all online services. Binding real identities to online activity permanently eliminates pseudonymous access, private communication, and democratic accountability.
🚨 Senior state officials and regulators know their demands have nothing to do with child safety. They work closely with tech companies and understand that iOS and Android already provide complete authority to restrict devices locally without collecting personal data. State officials deliberately ignore well established parental controls because they keep internet access under family control. Child safety is a public pretext.
🚨 Governments and regulators use child safety to establish mandatory identity verification across every app and digital service, eliminating online anonymity. When tech companies and state agencies link every social media post, private message, search term, geographic location, and financial transaction to a verified identity, they create a permanent digital dossier on every citizen with a global social graph that makes Cambridge Analytica look like a 2nd grade school science project.
💡 Binding people's identity to daily activity enables predictive behavioural modelling too. By feeding identity data into automated predictive AI, governments, intelligence agencies, law enforcement, and tech companies move beyond surveillance past behaviour. They can map political affiliations, predict individual actions, flag dissent before it occurs, and control public opinion at scale. Eliminating online anonymity ends free speech, private communication, and democratic accountability.
As Larry Ellison stated at Oracle's Financial Analyst Meeting in 2024:
"Citizens will be on their best behaviour, because we're constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on".
🙏🏻 Share this to expose how governments use child safety as a false pretext to force mandatory digital identity verification on everyone.
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen
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Every day our children are engaging with some of the most sophisticated technology ever created.
Technology that was not created with their wellbeing in mind.
We need to set clear boundaries in the digital world.
This is what our KIDS Act will do ↓
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The video on Twitter:
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1RJZzBnnbmAJB
The video on Twitter is edited AND it can not be addressed directly. This is one more Nazi dreck of Twitter.
And the video on Twitter can not be downloaded. This is still one more Nazi dreck of Twitter.
But the full video is on Twitter. The first ca 8 minutes is a no-contents intro, waiting for the conference to begin. Look at the clock:
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LIVE | Press conference on the EU KIDS Act
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Die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Europäischen Union, darunter EU-Kommissionspräsidentin Ursula von der Leyen und EU-Technologiekommissarin Henna Virkkunen, haben in Straßburg den Entwurf des EU-Kindergesetzes vorgestellt.
Das neue Gesetz zielt darauf ab, den Schutz von Kindern im Internet zu stärken und strengere Vorschriften für in der EU tätige Social-Media-Plattformen einzuführen.
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8:21 Good morning and welcome to our press conference with President Osunlayan and executive vice president Henna
8:30 Virunan on the commission proposal for an EU kids act. President, yes, thank you very much. Good morning.
8:39 Um, let me start with some striking figures. They are from this year's Eurob
8:45 Barometer in July. 92% of Europeans say we should strengthen the protection of
8:52 children and young people online. And around 70% are concerned about cyber bullying, harassment, and grooming. And
9:01 if you look at the figures, there's also another striking fact. Young people in Europe spend on average four to six hours a day on screens.
9:15 And for those who started to use social media before the age of 10, it is even more. They spend around 7 to eight hours
9:25 online every day. And this is almost a full working day for an adult.
9:32 So, too many children are being exposed too early to an online world they are not ready to navigate.
9:40 An environment where bullying can follow you home.
9:44 Where every mistake can be recorded forever and childhood and puberty is about making mistakes and learning from these mistakes and improving.
9:55 Children can be targeted by scams and predators.
9:59 Today, our children are engaging with some of the most sophisticated technology ever created. And it was not
10:08 created with children's well-being and development in mind.
10:13 Platforms are designed to capture attention.
10:17 Algorithms learn from our behavior that they exploit to make us click, react, and keep scrolling.
10:26 And too often these addictive features are a business business plan. The goal is to keep the children online and monetize their attention.
10:37 Today there is a robust body of evidence on the harm that social media does in a developing brain and personality.
10:47 And too well parents see the effects of this. We all know the consequences.
10:52 sleep deprivation, depression, anxiety, self harm, addictive behavior, and tragically suicide.
11:03 Parents cannot compete or keep up against algorithms, and they should not have to.
11:10 Therefore, I convened a special panel of experts. We spoke to young people. We looked at Australia and others who have
11:17 [clears throat]
11:17 uh moved ahead. We have listened to member states. And now it is time for the European Union to act.
11:26 This is why the EU Kids Act that is approved today by the college will set clear boundaries in the digital world
11:35 just as we do it on a daily basis in the real world.
11:41 We're taking a gradual and differentiated approach.
11:45 Each age has its own sensitivities and therefore each will have its own tailored protection level.
11:54 So in some no social media under the age of 13, no personal account under the age of 15.
12:04 That means from 13 until a child turns 15.
12:09 Only many accounts that are set up and supervised by parents or guardians with
12:16 limited feature and time restriction to one hour a day maximum. And then between
12:22 15 and 18, safe design will be an obligation for the platforms.
12:31 To be very clear, an age limit does not mean letting tech companies off the hook for the content of the platform.
12:41 Platforms have been playing fast and loose with our children's mental health.
12:47 Now we are reversing the burden of proof. Now they have to prove to us that they are safe.
12:56 And therefore for every person under 18 the platforms must follow the principle of safety by design. No toxic or addictive features, no traps etc.
13:07 Now age will be verified using EU certified tools like our age verification app.
13:15 There is bu this this app is built on zero knowledge proof. That means that the platform only learns one single
13:23 thing, and that's whether you're old enough to allow access or not.
13:30 For years, platforms have denied the harm they created. They have tried to avoid prescriptive rules and set rules
13:39 at their own pace. We're changing that with the kids act. So instead of authorities proving harm after after the
13:48 fact, the biggest platforms must submit detailed child safety plans in advance
13:56 and that means again that safety will come first. This puts the parents in the driving seat and the burden of proving
14:04 safety on the platforms where it belongs.
14:09 Today we're focusing on the kids act which is an important step. This act sets a clear framework backed by society and by law. But to conclude, I also want
14:19 to add two more remarks that are important. The first is I want to emphasize how important it is to educate
14:27 parents, teacher, children, etc. on the risks and benefits of the digital world.
14:34 And the importance of digital literacy for our children is huge as they grow
14:41 up. And my second remark, of course, not only the minors are at risk. I was speaking about addictive designs, for
14:49 example, they are harming everyone whether minor or grown up. And this is why we need a wider framework too, the
14:56 digital fairness act. We will propose it in autumn and today the focus is on the kids act. Thank you.
15:04 Thank you, executive vice president, please.
15:08 Thank you very much uh president and as the president said we need to take control of our kids' future. Parents,
15:15 teachers, national leaders, children, they all have been talking to me about the harmful impact of social media on
15:22 children and teenagers. We all know that social media are only about grabbing attention and keeping children glued to
15:30 their screens and this has to stop. With our kids act, we are now building on on our ongoing efforts in minors protection
15:39 because protecting minors online remains our absolute priority.
15:44 The EU kids act builds on the system we have already put in place to protect children. We have now behind us three years of digital services act
15:52 enforcement and this year alone we have issued 10 preliminary findings against major platforms. Tik Tok for addictive
16:01 design and unsafe account settings. Meta for addictive design and for failing to keep under their teams of Facebook and
16:09 Instagram. And four large pornographic platforms for claiming to be adult only but still letting miners enter to their
16:18 platforms. And the same goes for artificial intelligence. Our AI act prohibits AI systems that manipulate
16:26 people or exploit the vulnerabilities of children. And those prohibitions, they are fully enforced and we will enforce them strongly.
16:36 But today we go a step further now with the EU kids act tailored for our most vulnerable ones.
16:43 We need to ensure children enter the online world gradually in a safe environment being only exposed to age
16:52 appropriate content. So we need to be very clear on the limits. Like president
16:58 said below 13 no accounts and between the age 13 to 15 children will be able
17:06 to access social media only through guardians accounts.
17:10 And this age guardians play a crucial role to set up essential safeguards.
17:16 And parents will be able to decide whether if their kids could access social media and if so under strict guardian supervision and with a number
17:24 of safeguards like president said such as setting a minimum limit of use maximum not minimum maximum limit of use
17:33 pre-approving also potential new contacts and also setting a maximum limit on the number of other users that
17:40 their child can access through guardians account. Another element and the most important one is really the safety by
17:48 design rules. The kids act now includes a very clear list of dos and don'ts for
17:55 digital services and this applies to all users under the age 18. For instance, strangers, they cannot message kids.
18:06 Kids can't get targeted with personalized ads or algorithms based on past activity. and especially no more addictive features.
18:16 And let me be clear, social media platforms, video sharing platforms, AI companions, and AI chatbots and also
18:24 online video games all must meet safety obligations.
18:29 Let me give you an example of what safety by design means. If we take AI chatbots and AI companions with the EU
18:38 kids act, they can no longer act like a human friends in ways that make children emotionally dependent on them. By
18:47 default, they may not carry a child's earlier conversations into later ones.
18:52 And they must be tested for risks for children before launch and monitored for harm also afterwards. Chatbots inside
19:00 kids games or apps can't turn on by themselves, can't be pushed to children, and must be easy to switch off. And as I
19:10 said, these rules must be there by default. In Europe, it is now for companies to prove their services are
safe and we expect them to test the risks to children before launch and monitor the harms afterwards. For these
19:26 measures to be truly effective, the EU Kids Act puts also in place a very robust framework on age verification, age assurance, and parental guidance.
19:37 Proving your age online should be easy and it should reveal nothing else about you, absolutely nothing else than your
19:45 age. Because for parents and children, our solutions must be simple and empowering.
19:52 Parental tools should be easy, interoperable, and on by default. And proving parental responsibility should take one click.
20:03 Big tech don't get to decide how our children spend their days. We want to empower parents and guardians without putting all the responsibility on them.
20:13 Being safe online does not mean giving up other rights. Like president said, access to age appropriate information,
20:22 privacy, participation and expression remain guaranteed by default and by design. And now we will take this
20:30 proposal forward with our member states, with industry, civil society, researchers, and with children and young people themselves. And with the kids
20:39 act, we want to give parenting back to parents and childhood back to children.
20:46 Thank you very much. And now we are ready to take your questions.
20:50 Thank you. And before we take your questions, uh let me just uh ask you to
20:57 focus on the topic of this uh conference. And let me also remind you that later this morning at 12, we will
21:07 be offering a technical briefing on this very same topic. Uh and you can connect uh online. Our experts will be in
21:15 Brussels and let me start in the back please. Leah
21:21 Lebrand I have a quick question on the enforcement. So um and the responsibilities of the platforms I want
21:30 to know exactly from you dear president what happens in practice if the platforms designed is considered addictive. So what how will the
21:37 enforcement concretely look like? So it's very clear um so far um it was a question when children have access to
21:46 social media when a feature is addictive it's a clear do not they have to take out the feature and as long as this has
21:54 not happened no access to the platform uh for children and minors. Um so the
22:01 platforms cannot access our children and the minors. It's a clear exclusion um component.
22:13 Thank you. Uh I will then move on in the back on the other side.
22:20 Uh hi. You insisted a lot on parenting role and putting parents in the driving seat. Why do you insist so much? Can you elaborate on that?
22:29 Excuse me. Hi.
22:30 You insisted a lot on putting parents in the driving scene and giving back parents the possibility to to act. Why do you insist so much on this side? Is the kids act not enough?
22:41 Because we trust parents. They are the most important in bringing up their children and uh everyone who has
22:49 children has the experience that it can be tough in childhood and puberty.
22:55 um to explain why I think first of all clear rules are helping for example if it's against the law it's clear it's
23:03 against the law it helps parents also to explain to children no this is not possible this is harmful it's against
23:09 the law then it is very important that uh the parents accompany the child in
23:16 growing up and till maturity in being able to deal with social media and therefore this gradual approach
23:25 approach. This phasing in that we have chosen is important because the parents of course children under 13 very clear
23:32 rules between 13 and 15 the mini account can be set up by the parents or the guardian and together with the children
23:41 they start exploring the social media world with limited features and a limited set of friends for example not
23:49 thousands but only friends where the parents really know them and approve that uh they are connecting. Um so this
23:58 is accompanying the children during a very vulnerable age and then as of 15 more maturity of course you can have
24:06 your own account. This does not say mean that social media as I said is off the
24:13 hook. Um platforms anyhow have to in at in any case have to be clear on safety
24:21 by design. We've both explained what's behind the principle and I'm very much insisting on that one because up to
24:29 today it was often so that we had to look for uh addictive design for example or problematic harmful features. A very
24:37 tedious process discuss with the platforms. Um they promise to improve. We have to check whether it happens.
24:44 Time goes by and this um at the expense of a childhood or a teenager. Um now it's the other way around. If a platform
24:52 wants to access the children or the teenager, the minors, they have to prove first that they are safe and they have
24:59 to show in detailed safety plans that this is a given before that no access to
25:07 the miners and one point I want to add sorry because
25:15 it's for me important what is also very important what is happening today by discussing the topic
25:22 there is a societal discussion about the harms and the benefits of social media and um I just want to emphasize each and
25:30 everyone has a responsibility in that and can help because a few years ago I didn't know what I know today about the
25:38 harm of social media and it helped me extremely to form my opinion and to understand
25:46 also with the growing body of evidence from the medical sector what is going on in the brain and what is going on in the
25:53 development of a personality and this is knowledge we have to spread all over
26:01 Europe better even all over the world because it's so important to have this discussion to understand what's going on
26:08 and to understand the risks for our children and teenagers um and therefore as I said it's a wider societal discussion that is of utmost importance
26:17 so Please.
26:22 Thank you. Thank you for the press conference. Uh Razia Ako, AFP News Agency. Um we've I mean I cover the
26:31 digital services act. We have the AI act and so the EU has many laws uh some of which directly protect children and some
26:39 are broader. I just wanted to understand how this new law will ensure that the EU can actually protect children since it
26:48 seems that we now believe or the EU now believes that the DSA is insufficient.
26:53 And linked to this, I wanted to ask because there was the French uh court ruling last month on France's own legislation on social media and then I
27:02 see that you've taken the tiered approach. So I wondered um does this mean that you believe blanket bans like
27:09 in Australia are actually problematic and not the right way to go? Thank you. You want to start with enforcement?
27:17 Yes. About DSA, uh it's a horizontal legislation and now we have more precise rules for protection of minors. In our
27:25 DSA we have very clear article 28 where we say that when miners are using online services very high level of privacy
27:32 safety and security has to be insured and to to really show for the online platforms what we are expecting what kind of practices we are now expecting
27:41 from them we published guidelines for them one year ago in July and we see that they are implementing these very very slowly so now we make the
27:49 guidelines binding here this safety by design it's very very much based to Our guidelines what we have been already
27:57 really much pro promoting for online platforms one year time that we have been using them as a benchmark when we have been doing investigations but like
28:06 now president said also new element is here that now we are now making the guidelines binding here what safety by
28:13 design means we have very clear list what they should do what they shouldn't do what does it mean safety and privacy
28:22 and then we have also now this new approach when it comes to protection of minors that the online platforms they have to now to come with a compliance
28:31 plan already before this regulation starts to apply. So they have to show for us that they are safe and we have
28:38 also now this faster procedure that we can carry out investigations in 90 days when it comes to protection of minors and this is based for that that we have
28:47
very clear list now what to do and what not to do that what does it mean safety by design. So this is complementing our
28:54 DSA and this is especially now focusing protection of minors because we want that online environment is safe for everybody but but especially for children.
29:05 One point to the French constitutional court indeed there are two elements um that we learned from the judgment to
29:14 include in our law. There had been discussions before about that but now we have a very clear pathway to that. The
29:22 one is indeed to include the safety by design principle has not been there before. It's very clearly now defined
29:30 and explained and this is an obligation on the platforms. And the second was not to have a cliff edge. So no social media
29:39 and then from one day to the next full access to social media but to have a gradual um approach towards social media
29:48 a learning process a transition and this is the most difficult was the most difficult to design. I think we have
29:56 found a very good solution now with a lot of parental supervision the mini account and then maturity but safety by
30:04 design as a backup protecting the children. These were the two components, safety by design and gradual approach that came from the constitutional
30:13 court's judgment. And we have time for one final question. And let me give colleagues online an opportunity. We
30:21 have uh Jen Vichi please.
30:27 Good morning or afternoon almost. Um yeah, I have a question about compensation of chat bots. Uh you
30:35 mentioned them. I wanted to understand a bit better the definition uh to understand essentially whether with conversational chatbots we always we
30:44 also mean uh products such as I know generative AI products such as traged
30:51 uh in that case what kind of restrictions we can expect I think you mentioned no memories no parasocial
31:00 interactions uh but is there anything else we should expect and also what's the rale power
31:06 behind it. Why would chat bots, not companion chatbots, but conversational ones be um detrimental in your opinion?
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31:18 Yeah, thank you very much. I'm I'm not uh sure if I fully heard the whole question, but it was mainly about AI chatbots and AI companions and these are
31:27 included here as safety by design. So there we don't have uh all the evidence yet because this is now technology that
31:34 is developing but now we are requiring from video games from online services from all online services that there have
31:42 to be safety by design and this is the case also with the AI chatbots and AI companions. Of course we have also our
31:49 AI act already in place where is also clear obligations for those services but we have also included a delegated act to
31:57 our our regulations. So now when the technologies are developing and maybe new kind of harmful features and functional functionalities are coming
32:06 then we are able also to update uh the rules but now we are looking in this regulation we are looking especially harmful features not specific services.
32:15 So always if there is that kind of feature or functionality in the service then it's covered in different way in this.
32:23 Thank you.
32:24 Thank you very much for your participation. Thank you, President and EVP and wish you a very good day and remember there is a technical briefing
32:33 for all your remaining technical questions.
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