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Following the heyday of moral panics, risk discourses and censorious policy-making that led to the European Commission\u2019s first Internet Action Plan 1999\u20132002, EU Kids Online focused on conceptual clarification, evidence review and debunking of myths, thereby illustrating the value of systematic documentation and mapping, and grounding academic, public and policy-makers\u2019 understanding of \u2018the Internet\u2019 in children\u2019s lives. 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