US EditionTurkiye’s Parliament Debates a Bill to Restrict Access to Social Media for Children Under 15
- Turkish lawmakers began debating a bill to restrict social media access for children under 15 to protect them from harmful online content.
- The bill would require social media platforms to implement age-verification, offer parental controls, and quickly address harmful content.
- Mahinur Ozdemir Goktas, Turkey's minister for family and social services, stated that protecting children from risks and harmful content is a top priority.
- The main opposition, Republican People's Party, opposes the bill, preferring rights-based policies over bans to protect children.
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The government is promoting legislation to restrict access to Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat, with age verification tools and Kids Wallet subscription
ESTAMBUL (AP) — Turkish legislators began a debate on Tuesday on a bill that includes restricting access to social media for children under 15 years of age, making Turkey the most recent country in seeking measures to protect young people from dangerous activities on the Internet. If it becomes law, the bill would force social networks to install age verification systems, provide parental control tools and require companies to respond quickly to…
Turkiye’s parliament debates a bill to restrict access to social media for children under 15
Turkish lawmakers kicked off a debate Tuesday on a draft law package that includes restricting access to social media platforms for children under 15, making Turkiye the latest country to seek measures to protect young people from dangerous online activity.
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Turkey’s parliament debates a bill to restrict access to social media for children under 15
Turkish lawmakers have kicked off a debate on a draft law package that includes restricting access to social media platforms for children under 15.
The Meloni government tries to take a more and more alarming topic seriously: to deny social media to children under 15 years of age. There is already a bill ready for a year in the archives of Palazzo Chigi, and soon it could see the light. The competent ministers met with the undersecretary Alfredo Mantovano to evaluate this intervention on young people, especially in the light of the latest, dramatic cases of news. The text of the measure, an…
Family and Social Services Minister Mahinur Özdemir Göktaş stated that social network providers must take the necessary measures, including age verification, within the scope of social media regulation and provide services to children under 15...Click here for more.
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