Emmanuel Macron wants to prohibit the use of social media to people under 15 years of age. “We can't wait any longer”
Greece, supported by France and Spain, conducts activities aimed at significant limit by the EU time that teenagers can spend on the internet. However, Macron, who on Tuesday, publicly spoke after the assassination of a tutor deadly hardened with a knife by a 14-year-old junior high school student in Nogent, He wants to act faster.
“We can't wait,” said Macron on France 2.
He also announced that he would soon be introduced in France age verification on websites selling knivesas is the case with pornographic sites.
– A teenager at the age of 15 will not be able to buy a knife on the internet. This means that we will introduce strict financial sanctions and bans – he announced. Prime Minister Francois Bayrou has already announced that he wants to take quick action to introduce a general ban on the sale of juvenile knives.
On Tuesday, late in the evening, Macron wrote on X: “I prohibit social media for children under 15 years of age. Platforms have the ability to verify age. Let's do it.”
The French authorities are already taking actions to force some social networking sites – including X, Reddit, BlueSky and Mastodon – to introduce age verification by classifying them as pornographic sites.
French measures forcing pornographic parties to verify the age of users' age on June 7, which prompted the world's largest pornographic side, Pornhub, to stop operating in France. The demand for services of virtual private networks, which allow users to cheat websites about their location, increased immediately.
