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EU Governments Look to Australia's Social Media Ban for Kids
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EU governments look to Australia's social media ban for kids
Germany has joined the growing list of EU nations that are considering banning children from social media. Australia has banned youths from social media since December — and its example has lessons for EU governments.
Australia pretends to do so, others want to follow up: a social media ban for young people. How much addictive potential is there?
El Periódico
elcorreoweb.esIt is necessary to be "very, very, very prudent" when imposing prohibitions. But "I sympathize a lot" with the proposals for the introduction of restrictions on access to social networks for minors: in these terms the German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, expressed his position regarding the initiative promoted by his government partners, the Social Democratic Party (SPD), to prohibit access to these contents to children under 14 years of age. He d…
Protection instead of social: Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz advocates a social media ban for minors. In the podcast "Machtwechsel" by Robin Alexander and Dagmar Rosenfeld, Merz warns against "personality deficits and problems in social behaviour" by young people. He actually sees prohibitions as skeptical, but places the protection of children in the foreground. "The argument that children must be introduced to enable them to do so, honestly…
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