Good. About time someone did. Tech oligarchs will cry a river, but the Spanish children will thank the PM one day. Social media is horrible in so, so many ways for children and young adults.
Fun_Confection8200 on
Good luck enforcing that. unless they plan to implement a draconian digital ID system for every single internet user, kids will just use a vpn and pretend to be in portugal. politicians really don’t understand how the internet works
CreativeMuseMan on
Given the effect it has on young brains, it should be done globally. It’s a drug, an algorithm that knows your psyche better than you. If you don’t understand the mechanics of it and need an escape from harsh realities of life, you’ve got absolutely no chance to escape it. Even grown ups have got no chance to be fair. There is no social media literacy, unlike other drugs.
Sad_Prawn2864 on
Translation: every adult wanting to use the internet will now have to authenticate.
mellowfellow0 on
“Here is my ID sir, please gimme your artificially boosted content and also you can retract my social credit gains this month if I criticize you.”
MotanulScotishFold on
First UK, then France, now Spain, even Romania is discussing doing the same.
Wtf is wrong with you guys all of sudden?
This is the first step of censorship and control with the excuse of ‘safety’.
eminusx on
ah, so this is why Musk is calling him a tyrant!! hahah what a joke.
X, Facebook, Tik Tok, they all need to die . . . social engineering tools masquerading as ‘fun’ social interaction
Tabbyredcat on
One way to enforce this could be that governments create an official app that can only be accessed through official government channels, that you send your ID to and it gives you a digital certificate that confirms that you’re an adult and a real person. Then you can use this certificate to access social networks and that would be the only info you give. You’d still be anonymous.
TheGreatButz on
I can’t believe that there are people on Reddit who think this is good. There is a reason why countries suddenly started pushing for verification of all internet users and that reason is surveillance and government control over devices. What media children are allowed to use should remain the parents’ responsibility.
Previous_Art245 on
Oh please won’t someone please care about the children! The children we care so much about. Get the fuck out here with this nonsense clearly just another attack on internet privacy
apoca1ypse12 on
Ahh thats why that bitch musk was slandering the PM
KAWIS12 on
For fuk sake
Kiza_Doina7 on
very good and very late, too late.
M8753 on
> Spain will also introduce a bill next week to hold social media executives accountable for illegal and hate-speech content
Hmm how will this work, will these executives be unable to travel to the EU because they’d just get arrested here? 😀
I’m not from Spain so idk what their online ID system is, but I think age verification should work by confirming that you’re an adult, but not tieing your account with your real identity.
annoying-potatoe on
Should be banned to people over 50 who believe any shit they see online.
andawer on
Funny thing is that a lot of people here are ok to be spied by tech billionaires, but are afraid of age verification by the state. In optimal circumstances I’d be against it , but with the current state of the web, we need some control (next step should be social media algorithms regulation).
>In 2022, Spain introduced a law aims to protect minors from harmful online content, for example pornography or other materials harmful to children’s health, mental wellbeing, or “moral development,” which it did not elaborate on.
>The law requires that streaming, video-sharing, and other online platforms launch age verification systems that prevent children from accessing “the most harmful audiovisual content, such as gratuitous violence or pornography”.
>Meanwhile earlier this year, Spain’s national police formally launched a digital app called MiDNI that provides digital identification in real-time, including age verification.
>Another national age verification project is on hold. José Luis Escrivá, Spain’s former minister of digital transformation, announced in 2024 the creation of the Cartera Digital Beta wallet for age verification. A technical document released at the time said the wallet would generate 30 pairs of keys per month that can be used once to verify a person’s identity after the app analyses the user’s ID card stored in the system. But Spanish media has reported that the government is waiting for approval on certain data protection requirements before launching the tool.
Witty_Badger1300 on
This is a touchy subject. I’m old enough to harken back to a mostly unregulated, anonymous internet, where technology had not gone far enough for bots to be problematic or common.
The internet was also not available in my pocket. It was available in a single room in the house, between telephone calls and other peoples’ use.
The greater availability of the internet it an amazing blessing and a terrible curse. My identity was not former by the internet but my physical peers. I didn’t compare my life to someone whose entire lifestyle, or appearance, or existence may not be real.
I’m not saying to still developing youth “silly scarecrow, you don’t have a brain yet.” I’m saying there are many multi-billion dollar industries who revolve around tricking and stealing, and isolating you at every turn. And that’s not including the billionaires and trillionaires who want to literally eat you.
At the same time, I don’t want this regulation to demand linking online accounts or users to physical ID. I still want my online presence to be anonymous, or mostly anonymous. My fear is that, if my ID is linked, then someone else can decide if I use the internet, what I can see, and what I can say. It becomes so much easier for bad faith governments and companies to crack down on free speech, whistle blowers, and the transmission of information.
SIRLANCELOTTHESTRONG on
So controversial opinion. So my country (Australia) started this and in initially was against it with outing online documents online, tracking, free internet, and not actually targeting the main problem of the dangerous content targeted to underage kids.
*HOWEVER*, since we have learnt that there is a country run but pedos, rampant people being uncovered as sexual degenerates, and AI is just a lawless creation of harm, I actually agree with these sort of bans. Yes they don’t cover everything but its desperately needed.
b0bl00i_temp on
Good call. I see no need at all for kids to use S.M at all.
Call you friends and hang out. Much more healthy.
Zolombox on
It’s not to protect children it’s to know your ID and get your ass if you’ll say something bad about children ki11ers or Ropist of Israel variety.
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Good. About time someone did. Tech oligarchs will cry a river, but the Spanish children will thank the PM one day. Social media is horrible in so, so many ways for children and young adults.
Good luck enforcing that. unless they plan to implement a draconian digital ID system for every single internet user, kids will just use a vpn and pretend to be in portugal. politicians really don’t understand how the internet works
Given the effect it has on young brains, it should be done globally. It’s a drug, an algorithm that knows your psyche better than you. If you don’t understand the mechanics of it and need an escape from harsh realities of life, you’ve got absolutely no chance to escape it. Even grown ups have got no chance to be fair. There is no social media literacy, unlike other drugs.
Translation: every adult wanting to use the internet will now have to authenticate.
“Here is my ID sir, please gimme your artificially boosted content and also you can retract my social credit gains this month if I criticize you.”
First UK, then France, now Spain, even Romania is discussing doing the same.
Wtf is wrong with you guys all of sudden?
This is the first step of censorship and control with the excuse of ‘safety’.
ah, so this is why Musk is calling him a tyrant!! hahah what a joke.
X, Facebook, Tik Tok, they all need to die . . . social engineering tools masquerading as ‘fun’ social interaction
One way to enforce this could be that governments create an official app that can only be accessed through official government channels, that you send your ID to and it gives you a digital certificate that confirms that you’re an adult and a real person. Then you can use this certificate to access social networks and that would be the only info you give. You’d still be anonymous.
I can’t believe that there are people on Reddit who think this is good. There is a reason why countries suddenly started pushing for verification of all internet users and that reason is surveillance and government control over devices. What media children are allowed to use should remain the parents’ responsibility.
Oh please won’t someone please care about the children! The children we care so much about. Get the fuck out here with this nonsense clearly just another attack on internet privacy
Ahh thats why that bitch musk was slandering the PM
For fuk sake
very good and very late, too late.
> Spain will also introduce a bill next week to hold social media executives accountable for illegal and hate-speech content
Hmm how will this work, will these executives be unable to travel to the EU because they’d just get arrested here? 😀
I’m not from Spain so idk what their online ID system is, but I think age verification should work by confirming that you’re an adult, but not tieing your account with your real identity.
Should be banned to people over 50 who believe any shit they see online.
Funny thing is that a lot of people here are ok to be spied by tech billionaires, but are afraid of age verification by the state. In optimal circumstances I’d be against it , but with the current state of the web, we need some control (next step should be social media algorithms regulation).
For the folks cheering this on:
[https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/11/17/the-age-verification-era-which-eu-countries-are-restricting-access-to-adult-sites](https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/11/17/the-age-verification-era-which-eu-countries-are-restricting-access-to-adult-sites)
>In 2022, Spain introduced a law aims to protect minors from harmful online content, for example pornography or other materials harmful to children’s health, mental wellbeing, or “moral development,” which it did not elaborate on.
>The law requires that streaming, video-sharing, and other online platforms launch age verification systems that prevent children from accessing “the most harmful audiovisual content, such as gratuitous violence or pornography”.
>Meanwhile earlier this year, Spain’s national police formally launched a digital app called MiDNI that provides digital identification in real-time, including age verification.
>Another national age verification project is on hold. José Luis Escrivá, Spain’s former minister of digital transformation, announced in 2024 the creation of the Cartera Digital Beta wallet for age verification. A technical document released at the time said the wallet would generate 30 pairs of keys per month that can be used once to verify a person’s identity after the app analyses the user’s ID card stored in the system. But Spanish media has reported that the government is waiting for approval on certain data protection requirements before launching the tool.
This is a touchy subject. I’m old enough to harken back to a mostly unregulated, anonymous internet, where technology had not gone far enough for bots to be problematic or common.
The internet was also not available in my pocket. It was available in a single room in the house, between telephone calls and other peoples’ use.
The greater availability of the internet it an amazing blessing and a terrible curse. My identity was not former by the internet but my physical peers. I didn’t compare my life to someone whose entire lifestyle, or appearance, or existence may not be real.
I’m not saying to still developing youth “silly scarecrow, you don’t have a brain yet.” I’m saying there are many multi-billion dollar industries who revolve around tricking and stealing, and isolating you at every turn. And that’s not including the billionaires and trillionaires who want to literally eat you.
At the same time, I don’t want this regulation to demand linking online accounts or users to physical ID. I still want my online presence to be anonymous, or mostly anonymous. My fear is that, if my ID is linked, then someone else can decide if I use the internet, what I can see, and what I can say. It becomes so much easier for bad faith governments and companies to crack down on free speech, whistle blowers, and the transmission of information.
So controversial opinion. So my country (Australia) started this and in initially was against it with outing online documents online, tracking, free internet, and not actually targeting the main problem of the dangerous content targeted to underage kids.
*HOWEVER*, since we have learnt that there is a country run but pedos, rampant people being uncovered as sexual degenerates, and AI is just a lawless creation of harm, I actually agree with these sort of bans. Yes they don’t cover everything but its desperately needed.
Good call. I see no need at all for kids to use S.M at all.
Call you friends and hang out. Much more healthy.
It’s not to protect children it’s to know your ID and get your ass if you’ll say something bad about children ki11ers or Ropist of Israel variety.