The so-called child safety thing from the E.U. Parliament about content on platforms is a mix of ignorance, racism, and probably a bit of malice.

It’s racist because it’s pretty clear they’re doing it to scream and yell about CHINESE companies, even though it doesn’t make sense and it’s only harmful to the Internet. Some actually appear to be based in Singapore.

It’s ignorant because they fail to comprehend how platforms work. It’s unreasonable for them to wave their magic wands, and they have limited insight into the practices of a third party vendor (as do these people, frankly, as they’re arguing largely over hypotheticals at times, if someone is misusing someone’s likeness, the original country should look into it).

It’s malicious, because they should know these things very well, but they deliberately ignore it.

They also shake the rattle about knives on a marketplace, and perhaps, that is not ideal, but do they really think removing a few listings is a magic fix for violence?

The age verification crud is the same old nonsense.

For anything else they might say, if they’re rattling the “think of the children”, there’s a good chance it’s ill-conceived.