🇫🇷French Parliament Reaches Deal on Social Media Ban | Reclaim The Net

Two hours in a closed room, and France agreed that #anonymity online was a price worth paying for a headline about protecting children

French lawmakers spent Monday afternoon behind closed doors agreeing that children under 15 should be locked out of social media. They built a legal requirement for every adult in France to prove who they are before they can post anything.

Seven deputies and seven senators, sitting as a commission mixte paritaire, took roughly two hours to reconcile two very different versions of Renaissance deputy Laure Miller’s bill. The text they produced follows the National Assembly almost exactly.

A new provision slotted into France’s 2004 digital economy law declares that “access to an online social network service provided by an online platform is forbidden to minors under fifteen years of age.”

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