EU unveils online age verification app

Age verification will not automatically make social media less dangerous, argues Frankfurter Rundschau:

“The real problem is not the age of the users. It’s the addictive design strategies baked into social media, and these keep plenty of adults glued to their phones as well. The tech companies have been allowed to set the rules for too long – with voluntary commitments rather than binding laws, with in-house ethics committees rather than proper regulations. Elected politicians and public institutions should be the ones who decide what risks society can tolerate, not tech companies. But for this to happen, we will need a lot more than an age verification app.”