17
Jun
2026
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Protecting children’s safety and mental health from the risks posed by social media – our duty to act now (debate)
on behalf of the PPE-DE Group. - (DE) Madam President, I read there on the whiteboard that you in Brussels are supposed to be protecting the mental health of children. Let me laugh, because if you were to protect the mental health of children, you wouldn't be pushing the rainbow agenda and all sorts of drag queen on schools among children. If you were to protect children, you would not destroy their future by premature sexualisation, mass migration and the spread of poverty. You know, I don't think 13-14-year-olds need social media to live and compare likes and get depressed. No. They need to run, get to know each other, communicate, learn. But at the same time, I don't believe that by introducing that digital identity of yours, the digital wallet of the chat control system, you're really about protecting children. No, you're just trying to control the last remnants of the internet, which is still free anyway, and you don't hesitate to abuse this topic either. If you really wanted to protect children, you would fight harder against real pedophilia, introduce brutal and repressive punishments against paedophiles, to set a clear and deterrent example for all others who would like to do the same. But we definitely can't support internet censorship.