Public pressure is forcing tech platforms toward stronger protections for children
Public and political pressure across Europe, parts of the US, and other democracies is pushing social platforms to rethink how products interact with minors, prompting proposals from parental-consent frameworks to explicit age gates. Technical, legal and behavioural hurdles — from verification limits to circumvention and privacy risks — mean the result will be a fragmented set of rules, experiments and litigation rather than a single global solution.