COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s government on Friday announced a political agreement to ban access to social media for anyone aged under 15.
The move, led by the Ministry of Digitalization, would set the age limit for access to social media but give some parents — after a specific assessment — the right to give consent to let their children access social media from age 13.
Such a measure would be among the most sweeping steps yet by a European government to address concerns about the use of social media among teens and younger children.
GOOD
It’s not perfect, but it would be a good start.
There’s far, far too much evidence of negative impacts to children and young adults from social media, particularly in terms of mental health.
How can you call this good? While I agree there are problems needing tackling, this proposal does nothing to help young adults and the parental consent option seems very likely to create a have/have-not split in child groups which will also have negative impacts.
It looks rather like the “we must do something, and this is something, so we must do this” fallacy being used to exploit child protection to start compulsory ID checks.
Yeah, as think of the children has not stripped privacy every time it is spoken. /s