EU Hits Pause On Country-Level Social Media Bans For Children
The Commission said national bans could divide the bloc and delay a common law, while Austria’s draft would have barred users under 14.
- On Thursday, The European Union blocked Austria's draft rules that aimed to ban children under 14 from social media, preventing national-level restrictions before a European-wide law is finalized.
- Austria sought the ban for children under 14, but The European Commission argues individual national laws would divide the bloc, fearing fragmented regulations will discourage countries from adopting upcoming European-wide legislation.
- Proposed rules would ban social media for children under 13, allowing supervised access until 15; "We need to now focus on the negotiations of the Kids Act," European spokesman Thomas Regnier said.
- Brussels decided to postpone overlapping national laws for 12 months, though exceptions exist for countries like France and Greece that drafted rules earlier, as the European Union has yet to deliver verdicts on Italy and Slovakia.
- Negotiators hope the European Parliament and member states reach a deal on the Kids Act in coming months, aiming to establish effective enforcement of rules rather than allowing differing age limits across the bloc.
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The European Commission (EC) calls on the Member States of the European Union (EU) to suspend national bans on children's access to social networks for a year, justifying that Brussels...
The European Commission calls on capitals throughout the European Union to suspend any national laws restricting access to social networks for minors, in the context of Brussels' efforts to develop a set of EU-wide rules, reports POLITICAL.
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PentapostagmaThe European Commission calls on EU member states to suspend the application of national laws on minors' access to social media, in order to put in place pan-European rules
The European Commission's decision to activate a twelve-month suspension on national legislative projects that overlap with the proposed common European rules, with the exception of Greece and France, is cited in a post by Akis Skertsos. According to his own statement, this development confirms the argument that had been developed in the previous two weeks against PASOK and the other opposition parties, which insisted on adopting a different leg…
The European Union announced on Thursday, 29 October, that it does not want to adopt new national bans on children's access to social networks until the adoption of common legislation at European level.
The European Commission has blocked the adoption of national bans on social media use by young people for one year. This is to prevent fragmentation of rules in the EU's internal market and to allow the adoption of a proposal to restrict social media use by young people at EU level, which was presented in September.
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