Comment on France seeks to ban social media for children under 15
fantasyocean@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week agoRight, and while I understand what you’re saying. The article is talking about the French legislature trying to introduce a social media ban, not a blanket ban by EU. That would be a different topic. Now I may just be a simple American, but it is my understanding that Nations within the union still have a sovereign right to create their own laws and set their own agendas. Now if you’re saying that the French president and French Parliament do not have the legal authority to go through with an Australian style age verification ban, then that’s good news.
Regardless, as stated in the article, the French president is calling on Parliament to start debating a ban, and in this discussion, I think most people are just talking about what those bands look like in the rest of the world.
sunbeam60@feddit.uk 1 week ago
The article is talking about banning social media under a particular age. This is enabled by the new Digital Service Act, and specifically the Age Verification Blueprint within the European Digital Identity Wallet. The same discussion is happening all across the EU exactly because the EU now has shared standards defined for how age verification will work online.
So while it’s true that counties can enact their own laws, like a US state can, they do so within a framework of European supranational regulation and they definitely cannot (easily) make national laws that circumvent EU directives. Well, they can, but the punishments and the hassle is severe.
But very specifically these discussions are popping up all over the EU because suddenly the EU is actually putting in place the machinery that allows it to happen. So yes, it’s a French discussion, but one borne of and fed by the European-wide framework discussion.