00:01Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, on Tuesday backed the European Union's
00:07campaign to protect children from online harassment during a visit to the European
00:13Parliament in Brussels. Harry accused social media companies of failing to make their platforms
00:19safer, leaving children exposed to online harassment and bullying, sometimes with fatal
00:25consequences. We can no longer sit here and wait for thousands more children to lose their lives
00:33and thousands more parents, millions more parents to have their children's lives changed forever.
00:38So I will finish with saying that this whole mission has to be about safety by design.
00:46By the time that it's on the phone, in an app, in a kid's hands, it's already too late.
00:52We all know that. And there's no reason why this industry should be treated any differently
00:57from any other industry. Harry defended a strong approach to regulate social media,
01:02defining the current widespread addiction they create as brainwashing on an extraordinary scale.
01:09Harry also praised the proposed EU Kids Act, which aims to strengthen protections for children
01:14online for shifting the burden of responsibility from parents to social media companies.
01:19The EU Kids Act includes measures to delay children's access to social media, introduce age verification
01:26checks and strengthen default safety protections, including restrictions on addictive features.
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