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Age verification is the structural mechanism at the heart of the European Union's proposed restrictions on social media and AI chatbots for children under 15.
The policy places the compliance obligation at onboarding, not in content moderation downstream.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has described artificial intelligence as the "second tipping point of our time" after climate change, framing the children's measure within a broader reckoning with the technology.
The constraint sits at the platform access layer.
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