President Emmanuel Macron’s Office has already said he intends to adopt the measure after Australia announced last year that he regularly regularly accessed platforms
Children under the age of 15 should not be prohibited from using social networks and people aged 15 to 18 should follow a “digital collection touch” nightly, a French parliamentary committee on Tiktok said on Thursday (11). The recommendations were presented in a report prepared by members of the committee, after months of testimonials from families, social networking executives and “influencers” to analyze the Tiktok algorithm, a very popular short video app among young people. The president’s office has already stated that he wanted to ban use by children and adolescents, after Australia announced last year that he would adopt laws to prevent the access of under 16 to social networks.
In addition to the report, the committee chairman, Arthur Delaporte, told AFP that he also filed a complaint to the prosecutor against Tiktok for “endangering the life” of users. The commission, when analyzing the application, came across “an ocean of harmful content”, with videos that “promote suicide and self -mutilation” and “an exposure to violence in all its forms,” said Laure Miller, the group’s main rapporteur. A Tiktok spokesman rejected the committee’s “misleading” presentation “and stated that the deputies try to” turn our company into a scapegoat in the face of challenges that affect the entire sector and society. “
Tiktok, which belongs to the Chinese company bytedance, has been “a long time adopting a rigorous security and protection policy of its users”, especially adolescents, he said.
The commission was created in March to examine Tiktok and its psychological effects on minors, after an action presented in 2024 against the platform by seven families who accused them of exposing their children to suicide. Delaporte said that “Tiktok deliberately put at risk the health and life of its users.” “There is no doubt that the platform knows what it is failing, that its algorithm is problematic,” he added.
The Commission’s report recommends that the ban to under 15 may be expanded until the age of 18 if, over the next three years, platforms do not respect European legislation. The proposal of “digital collecting touch” to people aged 15 to 18 is that social networks are not available for this age group from 22h00 to 8h00.
*With information from AFP
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