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 consequences.
00:26We can no longer sit here and wait for thousands more children to lose their lives and thousands
00:33more parents, millions more parents to have their children's lives changed forever. So I will finish
00:40with saying that this whole mission has to be about safety by design. By the time that it's on the
00:48phone
00:48in an app, in a kid's hands, it's already too late. We all know that and there's no reason why
00:55this
00:55industry should be treated any differently from any other industry. Harry defended a strong approach
01:01to regulate social media, defining the current widespread addiction they create as brainwashing
01:07on an extraordinary scale. Harry also praised the proposed EU Kids Act, which aims to strengthen
01:13protections for children online for shifting the burden of responsibility from parents to social
01:19media companies. The EU Kids Act includes measures to delay children's access to social media,
01:24introduce age verification checks and strengthen default safety protections, including restrictions on
01:31addictive features.
