{"id":323205,"date":"2026-01-27T10:32:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=323205"},"modified":"2026-01-27T10:32:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:32:50","slug":"french-lawmakers-pass-bill-banning-social-media-for-under-15s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=323205","title":{"rendered":"French lawmakers pass Bill banning social media for under-15s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/053a\/live\/4c7fd700-fab0-11f0-91f4-a739ab96be22.jpg.webp\" alt=\"Getty Images Two young girls look at a phone\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>PARIS, Jan 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; French lawmakers have passed a Bill that would\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/world\/france-lawmakers-vote-social-media-ban-children-5883826\" target=\"_blank\">ban social media use<\/a>\u00a0by under-15s, a move championed by President Emmanuel Macron as a way to protect children from excessive screen time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lower National Assembly adopted the text by a vote of 130 to 21 in a lengthy overnight session from Monday (Jan 26) to Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will now go to the Senate, France&#8217;s Upper House, ahead of becoming law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Macron hailed the vote as a &#8220;major step&#8221; to protect French children and teenagers in a post on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The legislation, which also provides for a ban on mobile phones in high schools, would make France the second country to take such a step following Australia&#8217;s ban for under-16s in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As social media has grown, so has concern that too much screen time is harming child development and contributing to mental health problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The emotions of our children and teenagers are not for sale or to be manipulated, either by American platforms or Chinese algorithms,&#8221; Macron said in a video broadcast on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities want the measures to be enforced from the start of the 2026 school year for new accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former prime minister Gabriel Attal, who leads Macron&#8217;s Renaissance party in the lower house, said he hoped the Senate would pass the Bill by mid-February so that the ban could come into force on Sept 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that &#8220;social media platforms will then have until Dec 31 to deactivate existing accounts&#8221; that do not comply with the age limit. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS, Jan 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; French lawmakers have passed a Bill that would\u00a0ban social media use\u00a0by under-15s, a move championed by President Emmanuel Macron as a way to protect children from excessive screen time. The lower National Assembly adopted the text by a vote of 130 to 21 in a lengthy overnight session from Monday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"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\/323205"}],"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=323205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323209,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323205\/revisions\/323209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}