Reclaim The Net

California’s new social media law makes every user prove their age before they can get a personalized feed. Meta, Google, and TikTok are now suing, but only to exempt their own apps from the feed ban. The age checks that apply to everyone else are not part of the fight.

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Australia admitted in the High Court that its under-16 social media ban and age verification law burdens political speech. Tasmania argued Parliament shouldn’t need evidence of harm. The Northern Territory said political participation can cost you your privacy.

The ban is supposed to keep kids off social media. It also makes every adult prove their age to post. The kids found a way around it, but the adults are still stuck with it.

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The European Commission admits every video in TikTok’s feed was legal. Its complaint is that you watched too many of them in a row. Brussels now thinks it gets to decide how much sadness an adult is allowed to scroll through.

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New Brunswick says it isn’t mandating age checks. It’s only threatening prison for any app that should have known a 15-year-old was using it. Those are different things, apparently.

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The ECB has signed contracts with Nexi, Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica and Indra to build the network for a digital euro. The law that would allow a digital euro does not exist yet. The bank has also picked 36 payment firms for a pilot and is building an app. Banks will be able to link your online payments to your identity, and Lagarde wants authorities to get that data “upon request.” She once complained that democracy is “too much of a drag.” The ECB is behaving as though Parliament’s vote is a formality.

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