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    Macron calls for social media ban for French children by September

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    2. vriska1 on

      Macron calling for it to be fast tracked into law but he does not have a majority right? What are the other parties stances on this? Also there are alot of constitutional issues with this law and if I remember right a similar law was taken down in court.

    4. Vyslante on

      It’s the kind of stuff that’s, imo, not a bad idea (social media is possibly the worst possible place for kids); it’s just impossible to actually have it work (edit: in a way that’s not a blatantly dystopian panopticon).

    6. desvenne on

      They should ban the algorythms instead. 

      I’ve seen way more older ‘adult’ people be subject to misinformation than children. 

      They should also force meta to simply pay the victims of all the scams. Meta even afmits they make over 10% of revenue from false adds. Use 25 % of their revenue to help the victims. 

      And they should also explain to people that, just because it’s the internet, that doesn’t mean there aren’t societal norms. But who am I kidding, when you look at the bile and lies spewn by orhers….

      Sigh. 

      I don’t envy kids growing up these days. 

    9. Nanonymouse on

      Yes but at the same time ban it from politicians and pensioners/elderly, then it would be perfect.

    19. yksvaan on

      Might as well apply to adults. Allow forums and such where there’s no individual hidden algorithms in content. 0

    20. Hartax_ on

      rip. These kids will never experience the joy we 90’s kids did with club penguin, habbo hotel or mmo games.

    21. Elissa-Megan-Powers on

      Licence and strictly regulate the media companies. That’s how you clean the shit up

    22. MotanulScotishFold on

      I doubt it will gonna work as intended.

      Kids are smart and use vpn or other tricks to bypass.

    23. Ok_Win_2906 on

      Shouldn’t Macron first make the domestic abuse laws stronger considering that he is regularly slapped around by his wife ( husband ) ?

    24. Fluffy_Fun_9814 on

      I love EU. As an American I didn’t have kids, the society here never felt safe and I knew my kids would hate me or feel mad if I didn’t allow them things other kids had here.

      I dated a guy about 10 years ago and he said my kids would hate me because I talked about not allowing them to eat McDonald’s.

    25. Flyingwiththeblunt1 on

      We would need the same type of system s.korea has with their SSN numbers and every website needing it before being able to create an account.

    28. ganbaro on

      I believe a more effective strategy is to force oversight on the social media network providers.

      ID check and blanket bans are a burden felt by the consumers directly, which incentivizes seeking alternatives (like Fediverse accessed through VPN), which will be entirely unregulated.

    29. jqVgawJG on

      This is a great idea in theory but is technically impossible to implement.

      Unless you give up your privacy. Which I guess is why it’s trendy.

    31. Lurker_Zee on

      I agree with the principle. The practice is that they’ll use this to impose showing your government ID on the internet.

    32. Chi-ggA on

      please boss, I’m so tired…

      this shit coming up every month or two is crazy. I can’t stand it anymore, why can’t parent use parental control and have to force creepy stuff to every citizen in the country?

      like, instead of digital id, force parental controlled phones in supermarkets. this is the only reasonable way IMO.

    33. KimchiLlama on

      Good. The biggest online trolls are all French children…or so I have heard. This will really clean up the internet!

      /s

    34. mascachopo on

      Australia did this already and should become EU law, ideally allowing to phase out US social media in the EU for new users.