{"id":55020,"date":"2026-09-14T19:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T14:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=55020"},"modified":"2026-09-14T19:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T14:07:07","slug":"france-submits-new-proposal-to-ban-social-media-for-under-15s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/france-submits-new-proposal-to-ban-social-media-for-under-15s\/","title":{"rendered":"France submits new proposal to ban social media for under-15s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>PARIS, France:<\/strong> The French government submitted a reworked proposal to ban social media for children, after its previous ban was struck down by the country&#8217;s top constitutional authority, President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>France&#8217;s Constitutional Council struck down the previous legislation in mid-August, finding that part of it constituted an unnecessary infringement on the freedom of expression of those affected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After rigorous technical work the government today is notifying&#8221; the European Commission of the new draft, Macron wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>The notification is a key step, as it ensures that the legislation is in line with European Union laws.<\/p>\n<p>Macron has made banning social media use for children and teens one of his top priorities and hopes to see a working ban in force by the time he leaves office next year.<\/p>\n<p>He has called for similar legislation to be adopted throughout the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>EU chief Ursula von der Leyen is due to address a possible bloc-wide social media ban for children in a speech in Brussels this week.<\/p>\n<p>A growing number of countries are taking steps to restrict social media access amid multiplying warnings over its harmful effects on children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS, France: The French government submitted a reworked proposal to ban social media for children, after its previous ban was struck down by the country&#8217;s top constitutional authority, President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday. France&#8217;s Constitutional Council struck down the previous legislation in mid-August, finding that part of it constituted an unnecessary infringement on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55022,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55020\/revisions\/55022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}