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France seeks to ban social media for children under 15
(www.lemonde.fr)
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this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2025
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No im not arguing its hard to define, im arguing that youll have to ban children from whats app. Private minecraft servers (even ones owned and run by the kids) too. If you dont do this you leave a space for the tech giants to bring the targeted ads and then youll have to ban kids from each space as they move in.
Any communication channel will fall to this if you take the approach of banning children from them one by one instead of stopping this behaviour by the tech giants entirely by legislating against targeted advertising directly. These services are just as toxic to adults.
Ah I see what you mean.
I suspect the EU will regulate in the same way it’s done other enforcement; if you are above a certain size, different requirements apply to you.