Dänemark schlägt die Einführung eines umfassenden Social-Media-Verbots für Jugendliche vor

I just know the people commenting „good“ will come over here. I wish you all that support all these authoritarian, Orwellian and all other bad epithets digital laws a great data breach where all your government info and location should be posted online for laughs just like the Tea app incident and all the stalking cases happening around the world because the stalker got a hold of the victim’s location. You have nothing to hide, so you shouldn’t be mad at my comment.

The Danish government’s obsession with Internet surveillance is something a psychologist should look at. This can’t be healthy

And how do they plan to define social media?

Social media is toxic af for kids, so in general I am in support of age restrictions, but the problem is how do you enforce it without massive invasions of privacy? Or without a dozen loopholes that weak-willed parents will give their kids to stop the temper tantrums?

Gtfo with this OSA like garbage, youre not gonna get my id. Im not gonna make it that easy to get arrested for the wrong meme or edgy joke.

All because parents are seemingly unfit to do some parenting

There will never not ever be ID verification, chat control, or internet censorship in a free world 🙂

Fight against it. Physically, if need be. No government tells me what content I can use.

My heart goes out tonight to every child in the Kingdom of Denmark who, as of this moment, is being stripped of one of the most fundamental human rights in the modern world: the right to speak, to read, to discover, and to become who they are without the state standing as eternal gatekeeper over their mind.

Denmark is on the verge of enacting a law that forbids anyone under the age of fifteen from using social media in any form—not merely their own accounts, but their parents’ accounts, their older siblings’ accounts, even while sitting on the family couch in their own home. A fourteen-year-old who posts a drawing, a thirteen-year-old who comments on a music video, a twelve-year-old who messages a friend across town will now be committing a crime. The state has declared itself the ultimate parent, the ultimate teacher, the ultimate priest of what a child may see, say, or think online. This is not child protection. This is the state colonising the soul of the next generation.

I say this as a social democrat who has spent his entire adult life defending the very causes the Danish government claims to champion: universal healthcare, strong unions, climate action, gay marriage, reasonable gun control alongside a robust Second Amendment, a strong central government with a broad reading of constitutional powers, protection of workers and the vulnerable. I have never been the sort of free-speech absolutist who waves the First Amendment to defend Nazis marching or billionaires libelling private citizens. I believe hate speech can and should be answered with social consequence, and that defamation must remain actionable. But what Denmark is doing is not the punishment of hate. It is the pre-emptive gagging of childhood itself.

Free speech is not just another value on a progressive checklist. It is the oxygen without which every other right suffocates. It is why the First Amendment is first. It is the bright line that has always separated the free societies of the West—the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and yes, until this dark hour, the Kingdom of Denmark—from every totalitarian nightmare that ever crushed its young: Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, Mao’s China, Imperial Japan, Maduro’s Venezuela, Putin’s Russia. Those regimes did not begin with tanks in the streets. They began with children being told what they were allowed to read, whom they were allowed to befriend, what thoughts were safe to express. Denmark is walking through that door with a smile and a press release about “protecting mental health.”

If the concern is cyberbullying, then hunt the bullies—every single one—and bring the full force of law against them. If the concern is predatory adults, give law enforcement the tools and the will to find them and lock them away forever. But do not punish the innocent for the crimes of the guilty. Do not execute the victim to spare yourself the effort of pursuing the criminal. That is not justice; that is cowardice dressed up as compassion.

Childhood—especially the years from twelve to fifteen—is the sacred season of self-discovery. It is when a boy in a small Jutland town discovers Japanese anime and realises art can be a calling. It is when a girl in Aarhus finds a poetry community that teaches her she is not alone in her pain. It is when young people who will one day come out as gay, trans, atheist, Muslim, or simply eccentric first stumble across the language that lets them name who they are. Social media, for all its filth and chaos, is the modern Library of Alexandria for the adolescent soul. And Denmark has decided to burn it down because some of the books have sharp edges.

Parents are not perfect. Some are negligent, some are cruel. But the answer to bad parenting is not to abolish parenting and hand the keys to the state. The answer to risk is not to abolish discovery. The answer to the messiness of freedom is not to impose the sterile order of tyranny wearing a social-democratic face.

Australia already took this step and called it progress. Now Denmark—once the happiest nation on earth, once the quiet beacon of Scandinavian liberty—follows its government into the same abyss. A social-democratic government, of all things, has become the self-appointed high priest of childhood purity, convinced that bureaucrats in Copenhagen know better than mothers and fathers in Esbjerg, better than teenagers themselves, what ideas a fourteen-year-old soul is strong enough to wrestle with.

This is blasphemy against the Enlightenment itself. This is the betrayal of every value the left once claimed to hold dear. This is what happens when a political tradition that began with demands for liberty ossifies into therapeutic control, when “do no harm” mutates into “permit no risk,” when the nanny state decides that children are not citizens in training but wards in perpetuity.

Denmark, you never had to storm the Bastille. You never had to tear down a wall. You never had to bleed for your freedoms the way France, America, or Eastern Europe did. Perhaps that is why you now surrender them so casually. Complacency is the slow poison of nations that have never stared tyranny in the face. But mark this: the moment a government claims the right to stand between a child and the world’s ideas, tyranny has already won.

To every Danish parent who still believes your child’s mind belongs first to them and to you—not to the state: resist. To every Danish teenager who is being told your voice is dangerous until you turn fifteen: you are not the problem; the law is. To every citizen of Denmark who still remembers that happiness is not the absence of risk but the presence of freedom: the world is watching. History is taking notes.

Thomas Jefferson warned that the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Denmark, I pray it never comes to that. But if the price of restoring your children’s freedom is civil disobedience, then let the servers fill with forbidden posts. Let the fines rain down. Let the world see that the Danish spirit is not dead.

Because a nation that silences its young has already begun to die.

God bless the children of Denmark.
God bless curiosity.
God bless every forbidden word they are about to speak anyway.

And God forgive the government that decided childhood itself must be licensed by the state.

#Denmark #FreeSpeech #LetTheKidsSpeak #HandsOffOurChildren