France’s Top Court Rejects Social Media Ban for Under-15s
The council said the measure was not necessary or proportionate and questioned age-verification safeguards as the government seeks a revised proposal.
- On Friday, The Constitutional Council overturned France's proposed social media ban for children under 15, ruling the measure violated young people's freedom of expression.
- The council deemed the restriction neither "appropriate, necessary, nor proportionate," while questioning the safeguards surrounding mandatory age verification systems.
- Critics raised significant concerns regarding privacy, unreliable age-checking systems, and the ease with which teenagers could bypass such restrictions.
- President Emmanuel Macron directed Prime Minister Lecornu to draft a revised proposal, as the government still aims to introduce new restrictions by early 2027.
- Australia has already introduced restrictions for minors, while France and other nations continue to wrestle with protecting children's mental health from social media harm.
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On Friday, the French Constitutional Council struck down the law intended to curb young people's social media use. According to the...
On Friday 14 August, the Constitutional Council censored the law prohibiting social networks for young people under 15 years of age. With TF1, a mother indignant herself of this decision. Her son Clement ended her days at the age of 15 two years ago, after weeks of cyberharassment. - A mother's "collar", whose son committed suicide, after the censorship of the law prohibiting social networks for children under 15 years of age (Topics of society).
CHRONIQUE The Constitutional Council's annulment of the ban on networks for children under 15 years of age may be an incentive to find other ways to protect young people.In Silicon Valley, Meta and YouTube, or in China, at the head office of TikTok's publisher, jokes and laughter must have been on Friday. France wanted to ban all social networks for children under 15 years of age? In one decision, the Constitutional Council torpedoed one of Emma…
Fears for freedom of expression have led a French court-like body to block a law that would have excluded children under 15 from social media.
President Macron saw himself as a pioneer for a social media ban in Europe. The Constitutional Council rejected the law. Celebrities of politicians turn against the court.
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