EU Launches Probe into Major Porn Sites Over Child Safety
EU Launches Probe into Major Porn Sites Over Child Safety
The Spin
The EU's probe is long overdue. Big Tech and pornography platforms have repeatedly demonstrated callous disregard for child safety, prioritizing profits over protection while enabling predators and grooming vulnerable youth. These corporate giants cannot be trusted to self-regulate—aggressive regulatory intervention is absolutely essential to safeguard our children.
Age-verification systems are fundamentally flawed technological Band-Aids that fail spectacularly in practice. Users simply migrate to non-compliant platforms or employ VPNs, while these invasive tools create massive privacy vulnerabilities and exclude legitimate users. The EU's faith in such demonstrably ineffective surveillance measures is profoundly misguided.
Metaculus Prediction
There is a 95% chance Freedom House will report that internet freedom has declined every year until 2025, according to the Metaculus prediction community.
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