Give your feedback on EU guidelines to protect minors online

The guidelines outline a list of measures that all platforms, with the exception of micro and small enterprises, can implement to protect minors. They will help ensure that platforms can adjust their measures to their specific services, avoiding restrictions on children’s rights to participation, information, and freedom of expression.

For example, platforms should:

• Implement age assurance measures that reduce the risks of children being exposed to pornography or other age-inappropriate content.
• Set children’s accounts as private by default, thus reducing the risk of unsolicited contact by strangers.
• Adjust their recommendation systems and prioritise explicit signals by users on whether they like or not the content they see, reducing the risk of children ending up in rabbit holes of harmful content.
• Enable children to block and mute any user and ensure they cannot be added to groups without their explicit agreement, which may contribute to reducing the risk of cyberbullying.

The European Commission is looking for feedback from all stakeholders, including children, parents and guardians, national authorities, online platform providers and experts, on the proposed guidelines to protect minors. 

Find out more about the guidelines on the protection of minors online under the Digital Services Act and give your feedback before 10 June 2025.