France studies the “hill” of social networks for users under 15 years

After a school vigilante was stabbed yesterday by a high school student in the neighboring country, andThe president of France Emmanuel Macron is studying to prohibit access from children under 15 years of social networkswhere the use of white weapons would be popularized among the youngest.

In Nogent, a town in northern France, a 14 -year -old student murdered a 31 -year -old school assistant on Tuesday and also injured a police officer. Macron has the firm conviction that in this incident they would have played an absolutely decisive role social networks And that is why he wants to implement measures to properly protect minors from the dangers that lurk them on these platforms.

If the European Union does not make advances in this particular matter in the coming months, France will make the determination to put restrictions on access to children under 15 years of social networksMacron announced this morning.

For now The Executive of the neighboring country will put sticks on the wheels to the websites that market weapons, which will be governed in the future by the same standards that are currently applied to pornographic websites. And the retailers that break the rules may be confronted with fines and even with the closure.

The next step will be to prohibit access to social networks to young people under 15 years oldas recommended by an expert commission. In an interview with television Macron has insisted this morning on the need to restrict in an absolutely peremptory way to the access of the youngest to platforms 2.0. “We can’t wait,” he said.

How will the user’s age be verified on social networks? An unanswered question

The European Commission is currently working on a uniform solution For the protection of minors in the network of networks that can fit into regulations currently in force in all EU countries. However, the community executive project will initially be limited to determining the user’s age to prevent minors can access pornographic websites or buy alcohol on the Internet.

It is not clear in any case how the age limits will be implemented to access the social networks that Macron wants to impose soon in the neighboring country. Australia already approved last year the “hill” of social networks for children under 16. That veto will come into force at the end of this year. However, it is still an unknown how platforms 2.0 will collect reliable information about the age of users to prevent minors can make their way in these channels. And, in fact, a legal and viable solution for this problem has not yet been found.

Even when Instagram has introduced, for example, in a totally voluntary way the so -called adolescents accounts, these types of accounts are inevitably at the mercy of information related to the age provided by the user when you create such accounts. Sometimes, and when discrepancies are detected regarding age, random controls are carried out. The user’s age verification can also be carried out by video call, but this system is as little as expensive. Precisely for this reason, Both legislators and social networks want to transfer responsibility for the verification of the user’s age to those who are behind the application stores (Google and Apple).