Adults on Twitter are being suspended if they were underage when they joined

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The suspensions are a temporary fix to comply with GDPR until a more permanent solution can be established

Bottom line: Twitter has begun blocking accounts of users who were under the age of 13 when they signed up. The suspensions started on May 25, the same day the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) kicked into effect.

Users who were underage when they joined Twitter have begun receiving notices that their accounts have been suspended regardless of their current age.

“I received a message saying my account was now locked and would require parental consent in order to process my data, or my account will be deleted,” said one user who signed up in 2009 and is now 20.

Twitter withheld comment on the situation, but an insider told The Guardian that the company now has a policy to lock accounts established by kids retroactively. Since there is no way for Twitter to separate content that a user created before they turned 13 from later created content, the company’s only recourse to comply with GDPR is to suspend those whose birthdates place them underaged when they signed up.

"The issue stems from stronger requirements under GDPR around data protection for children."

The account deactivations appear to be a stop-gap measure until Twitter can devise a more permanent solution. In the meantime, users can reinstate their accounts by submitting some form of proof of age. However, at least one Reddit user reports that some persistence may be necessary to get an account unlocked.

So far, Twitter is the only social network that has taken such measures in response to the new European regulations. Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat declined to comment on their internal policies regarding the new rules, but there have been no reports of suspensions within those circles.

This is only the first of many ripples we will see caused by the GDPR.

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[Dean213]

@DonyMach1

Unbelievable...such a policy should not work retrospectively because it's counter productive, don't you think?

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50 minutes ago, Dino101 said:

Unbelievable...such a policy should not work retrospectively because it's counter productive, don't you think?

 

For sure m8 on the extreme side 

 

Don't effect me though not on any social media Nsane Forums is my limit for any internet contact 

 

 

[Dean213]

7 minutes ago, DonyMach1 said:

 

For sure m8 on the extreme side 

 

Don't effect me though not on any social media Nsane Forums is my limit for any internet contact 

 

 

The same applies for me as well. I do have a twitter and fb account but my interaction on them are minimal.

Thank you for your reply.

 

[steven36]

That what happens when  you are honest and give them you're personal  info and tell the truth.   I  was  in my 20s when i 1st came on the internet  and twitter didn't even exist yet lol   All I got to say Twitter do a piss poor job  of  protecting minors because twitter has porn in stuff all over it  and you dont even have to sign in to view it .  Tumblr done more to protect minors than they have now because to view most of it you have to sign in and chose to view NSFW when they updated in 2017  .

https://mashable.com/2017/06/21/tumblr-safe-mode/

[BioHazard]

Who would sigh up with their real name and birthday. 

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5 minutes ago, steven36 said:

That what happens when  you are honest and give them you're personal  info and tell the truth.   

 

Yep I just don't get that why would you trust your personal info to anyone on the net? 

 

Just to interact with others doesn't seem to make much sense to me I must be getting old 

[steven36]

44 minutes ago, DonyMach1 said:

 

Yep I just don't get that why would you trust your personal info to anyone on the net? 

 

Just to interact with others doesn't seem to make much sense to me I must be getting old 

I can talk to you on one of the forums i'm on member of, Ive not done chatrooms in years  unless they a good looking woman then i may make and exception and even then i have had to known them for awhile, then i will give them my land line if we hit it off in end to end encrypted chat.  i have been known to go across country and hook up even  . But  i have to get to know them before i even take it to the next level of giving them my real info. My trust has to be earned and a man on the internet dont have nothing i want  .  Websites may as well forget it  because there not getting it  I have and IM but there are just women friends on my list lol.. Between forums , watching movies and tv shows and reading who has time for it unless you are talking to a woman lol.  I'm not a snob my pm is open and i will help you out,  if i can  if you need something so it's nothing  personal .