PARIS, June 11 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron said he would push for European Union regulation to ban social media for children under the age of 15 after a fatal stabbing at a school in eastern France, the latest such violent attack that left the country reeling.
“If that does not work, we will start to do it in France. We cannot wait,”
This is not specified here, but they also want to ban white weapons sales to minors, which seems better suited to counter this horrible stabbing.
That’s the same guy who was pushing for a ban on video games. He’s just completely clueless and will say anything to say “something”.
COPPA already bans under-13s, so is that two year difference really worth the effort and cost? It doesn’t sound like it does to me…
Well that is in the US, not France.
Also, I don’t mind a legal ban on minors below 15,but this would certainly mean age verification for everyone else.
Writing on social media platform X after the interview, Macron said such regulation was backed by experts. “Platforms have the ability to verify age. Do it,” he wrote
It applies to all data handled by US companies, which the overwhelming majority of social media companies are. The only social media available in France (so excluding Douyin, QQ, etc) with 500M+ global users that isn’t american is Telegram, and I have serious doubts they wouldn’t just ignore the law.
What is white weapons?
For example, although callipers are designed for measuring purposes, they could also be used to cause serious injury. It’s what you call a white weapon.
Nah, I don’t think it’s about the purpose of the tool/weapon. It’s most likely a literal translation from the French “arme blanche”, which is any mechanical, non-explosion-based weapon. So knives and all that stuff, regardless of whether it was primarily designed to be a weapon.
That’s right