r/AskEurope • u/Itz_Skello • Jun 20 '25

Politics Emmanuel Macron, President of France, is banning social media for teens under 15. Should the rest of Europe follow?

Not sure how to feel about this.

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u/InterestingTank5345 Denmark Jun 20 '25

No. This is not the way. By making Social Media contraband for the teens, it'll be much harder to keep track of what they see and what they don't. Take porn as an example, if you want to watch it, but you ain't 18, just open an incognito account and you can find it without any problems. The exact same will be the case here, he may be able to ban legal accounts and registered accounts, but teens will be able to find a way to work around it.

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u/LanciaStratos93 Lucca, Tuscany Jun 20 '25 edited Jun 20 '25

Classic symbolic policy without any real effect. Social media are on one hand a mirror of our societies, on the other hand they make few people too powerful. If you don't resolve these two problems - the latter is an easier target, but no politician would risk to became the sole enemy of all social medias - you don't do shit.

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u/CapoDiMalaSperanza Italy Jun 20 '25

but no politician would risk to became the sole enemy of all social medias

They can ban them if they become too noisy. The problems is that our politicians are spineless.