The new EU Kids Act will restrict social media for anyone under-15s.
How?
By keeping a database of everyone's IDs and passports, so they can be breached later.
Just ask Discord.
Sep 21, 2026 · 10:41 AM UTC
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The thing harming kids was never "access." It's the design: infinite scroll, autoplay, and a feed engineered to keep you there as long as humanly possible.
Block under-15s and all of that still exists for everyone else, it's just that 13-15s get it rationed to an hour.
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These platforms exist to sell attention. Every "addictive feature" was built intentionally.
The EU's own law admits this. It talks about killing addictive features and platforms that pull kids toward extreme content.
So why is 90% of the fight about collecting everyone's passport?
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But let's talk about Meta. It has spent years lobbying to make age checks the app stores' job, so verification happens anywhere except inside the feed.
Zuck would rather help build a continent's worth of ID infrastructure before touching the addictive algorithm.
There's an option nobody talks about: build products that don't monetize attention or hoard your data to begin with.
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