“I opened one app to relax for ten minutes and lost the entire night.”
That is the problem this campaign is trying to solve. Platforms are built to keep people scrolling long after they want to stop. We want the EU to give people enforceable rights to lock themselves out, switch off manipulative features, and take their nights back.
The policy ask only matters if people immediately feel the problem.
The problem
The EU sees the harm. Users still lack real control.
Social media platforms are engineered to keep you scrolling. EU institutions are already warning about addictive design, investigating major platforms, and calling out features like autoplay, infinite scroll, and manipulative notifications. But ordinary users still do not have an enforceable right to block, limit, or reconfigure these systems on their own terms.
The ask
What we want the EU to do next
We are not asking the EU to start from zero. The Digital Services Act already opened the door by treating addictive design as a real regulatory issue. The next step is to require effective user-controlled lockout tools, feature restrictions, and non-manipulative defaults that platforms cannot reduce to cosmetic settings.
Enforceable lockouts
A person should be able to block an app entirely, or during chosen hours, and have the platform legally bound to enforce it.
Feature controls
Users should be able to disable autoplay, infinite feeds, recommendations, push notifications, streaks, and similar engagement traps.
A stronger legal path
If the current DSA framework is not enough, the EU should strengthen it with explicit rights against addictive design.
The strategy
Phase one is not a vague petition.
Phase one is to build a serious EU-facing case: collect stories, identify the strongest legal ask, recruit supporters across member states, and turn that into a concrete proposal instead of a generic plea.
That means the first job is to gather evidence, sharpen the demand, and turn the proposal into a research-backed paper that can stand up to legal, political, and industry criticism.
Who is behind this
Started by Karel, a developer based in Denmark who lost too many nights to the scroll and wanted to turn that frustration into something concrete at EU level.
Community
The forum is where the proposal gets stronger.
The forum is not just for venting. It is where people share evidence, pressure-test the legal ask, gather stories, and organise an EU campaign that can speak to lawmakers, journalists, and policy people.
Join the ForumWhat the forum is for
- Stories from people whose sleep, work, attention, or family life is being damaged by compulsive scrolling.
- Improving the proposal: what the EU should require, what is realistic, and where the current law is weak.
- Organising across countries, building media pressure, and preparing for a broader EU campaign.
What you can do now
Give us your email so this becomes more than a good idea.
A real supporter list matters. It helps show there is demand across countries, gives us a way to contact people when there is something concrete to do, and makes the campaign look like a serious organising effort instead of a one-off opinion.
- Back the campaign by joining the supporter list.
- Read the proposal if you want the full policy argument.
- Join the forum if you want to discuss stories, evidence, or strategy.