EU to Present Plan to Restrict Children’s Access to Social Media
THE SO WHAT
If the EU moves to legally restrict minors’ social access, age verification, identity, and content controls become hard regulatory requirements, not product choices. Any platform with EU users — or building for teens globally — should assume higher compliance overhead and start mapping where under-18 usage touches their stack.
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