This Law Will Literally Kill the Internet

Overview

The presenter warns that the proposed EU “Kids Act,” intended to protect children online, could impose broad age-based restrictions across websites and apps. In the presenter’s interpretation, anyone who has not verified their age—not only actual minors—could be treated as a child by default.

Potential Restrictions

The video says unverified users might lose access to features such as voice chat, livestreaming, and viewing or downloading user-generated content. Platforms could also be required to:

• Limit usage during school and sleep hours
• Suppress personalized recommendations and some notifications
• Disable inactive accounts after six months

The presenter questions how these rules would work in practice, including whether platforms could reliably identify adults without requiring ID and whether private servers for friends would be exempt.

Concerns Raised

A central concern is privacy: age checks could require people to submit identity documents to online services, creating risks if companies are hacked or data is leaked.

The presenter also argues that the rules could restrict young people’s access to educational material, burden small developers and open-source projects with costly compliance requirements, and advantage large companies. They doubt the restrictions would substantially improve children’s safety and warn that other countries or companies might adopt similar rules. The video closes by urging viewers to raise awareness and oppose the proposal.

These are the presenter’s criticisms and predictions; the subtitles do not establish how the proposal’s provisions would ultimately be interpreted or enforced.

Presenters and Contributors

• Presenter: Unnamed narrator
• Louis Rossmann: Cited as a source of coverage
• Stop Killing Games: Mentioned as having consulted lawyers; individual lawyers are not named