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First and foremost, uh we need to create
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an environment online on the social
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media and in video games etc. that if
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kids and young people should be that it
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needs to be much safer than it is today.
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And one of the ways we can make it safer
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is to say that we will uh ban the most
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addictive and harmful uh design features
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we see online. The thing that makes us
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scroll and scroll. I mean the kids
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scroll and scroll and where it's
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difficult for them to put down uh the
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phone. We are not controlling the
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algorithms. The algorithms they are
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controlled uh outside EU in the United
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States in China in the Middle East but
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not in Europe. So we don't know and our
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kids are being formed by these
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algorithms in their approach to each
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other to commercial things to how we
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interact to democracy uh etc etc and
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that's really a huge experiment and we
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need to stop it. We need to end that
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now. One of the ways we can do that is
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by saying well we need to have an age
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limit and that age limit needs to be
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controlled so that we can make sure that
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at least the social media we know today
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that it is not possible to access them
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until you're at least 13. We're saying
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16 years old and then if you want to go
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online before you need to have your
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parents consent. We want to avoid a
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fragmented internal market and that's
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why we suggest a harmonized EU age limit
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and uh give some systems that could be
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used uh to check it. But for us it's
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very important for for the parliament it
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is very important that the systems that
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would check the age needs to be privacy
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preserving. It needs to be accurate and
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it needs to be robust.
