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France seeks to ban social media for children under 15
(www.lemonde.fr)
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this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2025
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*France seeks to implement mass surveillance online by requesting age verification, but politicians wrap it in "we do it to protect the children" which is bullshit.
Protect your rights to privacy, stand up against such erosion of your rights.
Governments already have access to your data and can easily link you to your social media accounts
This is a rather defeatist take. It's also wrong.
I don't mean it to be. I'm trying to be a realist so that I can take appropriate steps to protect myself online. If you want to be anonymous on social media then you should only connect via a VPN. And if you're using a VPN you can set your location to be somewhere that doesn't have these requirements. There are other ways that these companies can track you as well and they will freely give this data to the authorities. Even if you're protect yourself from all of those vectors, if you upload a photo of yourself or someone else tags you then there is a good chance you're identifiable with tools like ClearView. People making the argument that this new restriction will allow governments to track citizens clearly have no clue about the current surveillance systems. I'm not pro these surveillance systems but this ignorance is dangerous. The biggest danger I see from these new rules are data leaks.