Un altro paese accetta di vietare i social media ai bambini sotto i 15 anni | L’Indipendente

Pretty hypocritical of a UK news platform to criticize Denmark, but it has to be said.

how would you even enforce this without implementing mandatory ID checks i.e. chat control/ censorship ?

Those are good laws, to bad the average 13-15 yos knows way more about computers than the ones who are making those laws

Asking services to ban kids is stupid, because the services should never know anyone’s age. Any knowledge the service has transfers power and income from people in Europe to US ads companies, so the services should be banned from making people give their real names, ages, etc.

Instead, they should ban providing kids under 15 with SIM cards. If kids do not have SIM cards, and do not have the money to hang out in cafees etc, then the kids cannot access the internet on their own. So kids would access the internet primarily through school wifi and home wifi. Schools could apply relatively strict education-only filters. Parents could do what they like, but then different social groups could offer different filtering software & routers to parents.

Alternatively, they could require that kids phones have some filtering software installed, if brought to school, but this still seems somewhat heavy handed since it reduces parents options.

We do not want kids to be raised all the same anyways, which includes not giving them all the same internet access, so let parents with different beliefs do things differently, but eliminate the non-educational distractions in school.

Instead of banning why not teach the kids the correct way of utilizing digital media? Many countries still don’t have anything for that. It won’t get better by just banning.