Because the negative effects of unrestricted internet access on children (and adults) is becoming more evident.

> Put on your tinfoil hat and ask yourself: why is that suddenly a topic in so many different countries?

Ooh I know, the elite classes across the globe have been exposed as degenerate pedophile subhumans. Knowing the information would release soon, they began to coordinate this campaign to provide lip service virtue signaling about child predation while also tightening their grip on the underclasses before it gets too heated.

Well "think of the children" was the PR reason for the US clamping down on TikTok, while the lawmakers and lobbyists behind it said pretty openly that it's about silencing criticism of Israel. So I would think it's the same thing in the EU.