Initial thoughts on the EU KIDS Act

The European Commission has proposed the EU KIDS Act. It is yet another set of Internet/web regulation proposals to examine, for jurisdictional overreach, lack of common sense in terms of material scope, and so on. It is only a proposal currently It is only a legislative proposal at the moment, so it may not become law, and it may not become law in this form. Based on a quick skim, this is indeed another fine mess, full of unrealistic expectations. It has an incredibly broad scope The proposal covers a lot of services: online social networking services; video-sharing platform services; software application stores online games; operating systems; AI companions; general conversational chatbots. I have read this from the perspective of online social networking services, thinking predominantly about Mastodon and other fediverse services. At least code forges are out of scope (“open-source software-developing and-sharing platforms”). And Wikipedia seems to have its own bespoke exemption…