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Comment by miohtama

8 hours ago

Here is the EPP's plea to get this passed earlier.

They even used a teddy bear image.

https://www.eppgroup.eu/newsroom/epp-urges-support-for-last-...

"Protecting children is not optional," said Lena Düpont MEP, EPP Group spokeswoman on Legal and Home Affairs. "We call on the S&D Group to stop hiding behind excuses and finally take responsibility. We cannot afford a safe haven for child abusers online. Every delay leaves children exposed and offenders unchallenged."

Personally, I feel there must be other privacy-preserving ways to address child abusers than mass surveillance.

Also, for the record, here is the list of parties that lobbied for this for Mrs Düpont, alongside very few privacy-focused organisations. Not sure why Canada or Australia are lobbying for EU laws.

ANNEX: LIST OF ENTITIES OR PERSONS FROM WHOM THE RAPPORTEUR HAS RECEIVED INPUT

- Access Now

- Australian eSafety Commissioner

- Bundesrechtsanwaltskammer (BRAK)

- Canadian Centre for Child Protection

- cdt - Center for Democracy & Technology

- eco - Association of the Internet Industry

- EDPS

- EDRI

- Facebook

- Fundamental Rights Agency

- Improving the digital environment for children (regrouping several child protection NGOs across the EU and beyond, including Missing Children Europe, Child Focus)

- INHOPE – the International Association of Internet Hotlines

- International Justice Mission Deutschland e.V./ We Protect

- Internet Watch Foundation

- Internet Society

- Match Group

- Microsoft

- Thorn (Ashton Kutcher)

- UNICEF

- UN Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-9-2020-0258_...

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DoingIsLearning  8 hours ago

We need to add Palantir in bold letters to that list, they are behind this in every way except for 'officially'.

> The Commission’s failure to identify the list of experts as falling within the scope of the complainant’s public access request constitutes maladministration. [0]

> The Commission presented a proposal on preventing and combating child sexual abuse, looking in particular at detecting child pornography. In this context, it has mentioned that support could be provided by the software of the controversial American company Palantir... [1]

> Is Palantir’s failure to register on the Transparency Register compatible with the Commission’s transparency commitments? [1]

(Palantir only entered the Transparency Registry in March 2025 despite being a multi million vendor of Gotham for Europol and European Agencies for more than a decade)

> No detailed records exist concerning a January meeting between European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and the CEO of controversial US data analytics firm Palantir [2]

[0] https://www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/decision/en/176658

[1] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2024-00016...

[2] https://www.euractiv.com/news/commission-kept-no-records-on-...

heavyset_go  5 hours ago

> - Thorn (Ashton Kutcher)

They really have no shame, do they? https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-66772846

Kutcher defended a rapist in court when they thought they were anonymous (they weren't), the same rapist who bragged about assaulting their underage peer/co-star to Kutcher, and then harassed the children of the plaintiffs[1] in his trial where he was convicted and sentenced to 30 years to life:

> Another plaintiff stated that she and her neighbors observed a man snapping pictures from her driveway, and later that night, broke a window in her 13-year-old daughter's bedroom.

[1] https://people.com/tv/danny-masterson-church-scientology-sue...

shevy-java  3 hours ago

Interesting how these actually abuse children. This has nothing to do with children.

The age verification also has nothing to do with children.

They are using rhetorical tricks to confuse voters who are clueless. I have seen how this works on elderly people in particular, and mothers who are not tech-savvy.