After France’s Failed Attempt, Who Will Be First to Shape Europe’s Answer to Children and Social Media?
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After France’s failed attempt, who will be first to shape Europe’s answer to children and social media?
French judges have struck down president Emmanuel Macron’s pioneering social-media ban for minors, posing hard questions for a planned EU roll-out of similar measures. The Constitutional Council in Paris failed to pass his age-restriction bill on social media for under-15s in a ruling last Friday (14 August), on grounds of the vagueness of its details. They also said it breached the French constitution’s rights to freedom of speech and private l…
Considers that it violates the freedom of expression and communication of minors in that country
The French Constitutional Council has stopped Parliament's social media ban on children and young people under the age of 15 in July.
The law launched by the Macron government did not stand up to a lawsuit by the left-wing radical party LFI, which justified its return with freedom of expression. In the election campaign, the party relies heavily on social networks.
FIGAROVOX/TRIBUNE - By censoring the ban on social networks for children under the age of 15, the Constitutional Council leaves the legislator unarmed. Stuck between the constitutional hammer and the anvil of European rules, it will have to find a mouse hole to legislate, points the lawyer.
Emmanuel Macron asked the government to rework the text to present a "legally robust" version by spring 2027.
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