🇪🇺 Spain leads the way: Time to regulate Big Tech & protect kids
Pedro Sánchez’s speech at #WorldGovernmentsSummit was a game-changer: Spain will ban social media for under-16s and hold platforms legally accountable for online harms. Why? Because the current model is broken:
✅ Our kids aren’t products—they’re exposed to addictive algorithms, misinformation, and exploitation.
✅ Privacy isn’t optional—personal data shouldn’t be the price for “free” services.
✅ Europe must take the lead—with strong regulation, sovereign tech, and a fair digital market.
As I prep my Windows-to-Mac migration (and a 100% European tech stack), I’m asking:
🔹 What EU-based tools do you use to replace Outlook (email/calendar), Notion (notes), or Office? (I’m already on @Infomaniak for email/cloud—what else?)
🔹 How can we push for similar laws in Portugal & the EU?
#DigitalSovereignty #TechRegulation #PrivacyFirst #DeGoogle #EuropeanAlternatives #Mastodon

🇪🇺 Spain leads the way: Time to regulate Big Tech & protect kids
Pedro Sánchez’s speech at #WorldGovernmentsSummit was a game-changer: Spain will ban social media for under-16s and hold platforms legally accountable for online harms. Why? Because the current model is broken:
✅ Our kids aren’t products—they’re exposed to addictive algorithms, misinformation, and exploitation.
✅ Privacy isn’t optional—personal data shouldn’t be the price for “free” services.
✅ Europe must take the lead—with strong regulation, sovereign tech, and a fair digital market.
As I prep my Windows-to-Mac migration (and a 100% European tech stack), I’m asking:
🔹 What EU-based tools do you use to replace Outlook (email/calendar), Notion (notes), or Office? (I’m already on @Infomaniak for email/cloud—what else?)
🔹 How can we push for similar laws in Portugal & the EU?
#DigitalSovereignty #TechRegulation #PrivacyFirst #DeGoogle #EuropeanAlternatives #Mastodon

EU regulators issued a preliminary ruling that TikTok's infinite scroll, autoplay, and recommendation algorithm violate the Digital Services Act's "addictive design" standards. The platform faces potential fines up to 6% of global revenue ($2.1B) and must overhaul core features. First legal standard applied to social media addictiveness. Meta under similar investigation. #DigitalServicesAct #TechRegulation #SocialMedia

https://www.implicator.ai/eu-finds-tiktoks-infinite-scroll-and-algorithm-violate-digital-safety-law/

EU regulators issued a preliminary ruling that TikTok's infinite scroll, autoplay, and recommendation algorithm violate the Digital Services Act's "addictive design" standards. The platform faces potential fines up to 6% of global revenue ($2.1B) and must overhaul core features. First legal standard applied to social media addictiveness. Meta under similar investigation. #DigitalServicesAct #TechRegulation #SocialMedia

https://www.implicator.ai/eu-finds-tiktoks-infinite-scroll-and-algorithm-violate-digital-safety-law/

I'm really happy to see political parties beginning to take toxic algorithms seriously!

We must force private, for-profit social media companies to turn off their recommender systems *for everyone* for good - so we can once again regain freedom to choose what we see online, like we had until 2014 when the doom spiral began!

https://www.fm104.ie/news/fm104-news/people-before-bill-targets-toxic-algorithms-harming-children/

#Ireland #IrishPolitics #Algorithms #RecommenderSystems #ToxicAlgorithms #SocialMedia #EUPolitics #Democracy #MentalHealth #Tech #TechRegulation

I'm really happy to see political parties beginning to take toxic algorithms seriously!

We must force private, for-profit social media companies to turn off their recommender systems *for everyone* for good - so we can once again regain freedom to choose what we see online, like we had until 2014 when the doom spiral began!

https://www.fm104.ie/news/fm104-news/people-before-bill-targets-toxic-algorithms-harming-children/

#Ireland #IrishPolitics #Algorithms #RecommenderSystems #ToxicAlgorithms #SocialMedia #EUPolitics #Democracy #MentalHealth #Tech #TechRegulation