Brussels Tries to Determine How Old You Need to Be to Understand That TikTok Is Stupid
EU leaders have decided that children need protection from social networks, but so far nobody knows how to do it.
In Brussels on Thursday, EU leaders gathered together and decided that children need some kind of minimum age to be able to use social networks. Only nobody knows what that age should be or how to verify it. Germany wants to do something, but Brussels says: "No, no, we decide ourselves!" Similar to whether the Liepāja Theater can decide about its own shows, or whether they need to ask permission from Riga.
The biggest problem is that nobody really knows how to verify a child's age on the internet without turning it into a total privacy joke. "Are you 16?" — "Yes!" — "Okay, come on in!" This level is almost as effective as the Liepāja Theater's ticket control, where even people from Riga travel and easily get in without problems.
The biggest uproar arose around Elon Musk's "X" platform, where artificial intelligence started creating inappropriate images. Now everyone is wondering how it could possibly happen that technology created to imitate human behavior started behaving like humans on the internet. Surprise!
"We need to protect children!" — scream politicians, while they themselves can't tell TikTok from Telegram. Local Liepāja mom Maija comments: "I'd rather take my child to the theater — at least there you know the actors are grown-up people." Smart woman. While Brussels is thinking, our children have already become social media experts.
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