{"id":323011,"date":"2026-01-25T09:53:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T01:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=323011"},"modified":"2026-01-25T09:53:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T01:53:57","slug":"france-pres-macron-vows-to-speed-up-social-media-ban-for-under-15s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=323011","title":{"rendered":"France: Pres Macron vows to speed up social media ban for under-15s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/assets\/news_photos\/2026\/01\/24\/image-354404-1769266221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"447\" height=\"297\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>PARIS, Jan 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; French President Emmanuel Macron vowed to speed up the legislative process for a social media ban on\u00a0under-15s, with the goal of enacting it in September this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I have asked the government to activate the accelerated procedure so it can\u00a0go as quickly as possible,&#8221; he said in a self-recorded video broadcast on BFM\u00a0Television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said he wanted it to be &#8220;applied from the start of the next school year&#8221;,\u00a0in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>French lawmakers have been debating the bill for such a ban, following in the\u00a0footsteps of Australia, which last month became the first country to prohibit\u00a0children under the age of 16 using such popular &#8212; and addictive &#8212; platforms\u00a0<br>as Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their draft legislation is to be submitted to the French parliament on\u00a0Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Macron said that, on top of a ban on children under 15 accessing social\u00a0media, he also backed a ban on pupils having on mobile phones in schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The brains of our children and our adolescents are not for sale or for\u00a0manipulating, not by US platforms, not by Chinese algorithms,&#8221; the president\u00a0said. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS, Jan 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; French President Emmanuel Macron vowed to speed up the legislative process for a social media ban on\u00a0under-15s, with the goal of enacting it in September this year. &#8220;I have asked the government to activate the accelerated procedure so it can\u00a0go as quickly as possible,&#8221; he said in a self-recorded video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":323012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323011"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323013,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323011\/revisions\/323013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/323012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}