⚡🇫🇷 ICYMI - France seeks to ban social media for children under 15.

The initiative is backed by President Emmanuel Macron, who said earlier this month that Parliament should start debating such a proposal in January.

"Many studies and reports now confirm the various risks caused by excessive use of digital screens by adolescents," the French draft says.

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The Governments of the world are realising that they are losing power and that the people are rising. Instead of accepting that people want to have democracy and freedom, the Governments have decided we are to be stripped of every right and freedom that we currently enjoy. This war on the people will only end one way - The people will win in the end.

It includes a second article to extend the existing mobile phone ban in schools to high schools (phones are already banned in primary and middle schools). 

The online regulator Arcom will be responsible for enforcing the new social media restrictions. 

The government justifies the measures by citing risks from excessive screen time, including exposure to inappropriate.