Germany's ruling conservative party just took a massive step toward digital authoritarianism, passing a sweeping motion to ban social media for children under 14 and impose strict verification requirements on teenagers. The move by Chancellor Friedrich Merz's Christian Democratic Union at their Stuttgart conference should serve as a wake-up call to freedom-loving Americans about the slippery slope of government overreach.
While protecting children online is a legitimate concern every parent shares, this heavy-handed government approach reeks of the same authoritarian mindset that has plagued Europe for decades. Instead of empowering parents to make decisions for their own families, German politicians want bureaucrats in Berlin calling the shots on how children interact with technology.
The CDU's proposal doesn't stop at age restrictions – they're demanding stringent "digital verification checks" for teenagers and threatening fines for platforms that don't comply. Sound familiar? This is exactly the kind of digital surveillance state that Big Tech and globalist elites have been pushing worldwide under the guise of "protecting the children."
Government Control Masquerading as Child Protection
Here's what the mainstream media won't tell you: these so-called "child protection" measures always end up becoming tools for broader censorship and control. Once governments establish the infrastructure to monitor and restrict online activity for minors, how long before those same powers expand to adults?
Patriots should recognize this playbook by now. First, they create a crisis around "protecting children." Then they demand sweeping government powers to "solve" the problem. Finally, those emergency powers become permanent fixtures of the surveillance state.
Thank God we have President Trump back in the White House, rolling back the Biden regime's censorship apparatus and restoring free speech protections. While European politicians embrace digital authoritarianism, America is choosing liberty.
The contrast couldn't be clearer: Europe marches toward government control of information, while Trump's America champions constitutional freedoms and parental rights. Which future do you want for your children?