Children under the age of 13 should not use smartphones and should not access social networks such as TikTok, Snapchat and TikTok until they are 18, according to a report called for by President Emmanuel Macron.
Macron asked experts to propose guidelines for children's smartphone use, aiming to take definitive steps to limit young people's exposure to social networks. However, it is still not clear how the government will act and the concrete steps it will take to prevent this age group from accessing social networks.
This request of the president comes after in January of this year, he announced that there will be bans and possible restrictions in France that children will not be allowed to have a smartphone and until the age of 18 they will not have accounts on social networks the aforementioned.
The report highlights that children need to be protected from the strategic approaches of the technology industry, which, wanting to earn more, seeks to attract the attention of children, using forms of cognitive skills, to connect them even more to screens, as well as to control them, so that there is more profit.
Over the course of 3 months, scientists and experts have conducted a study, from which neurologist Servan Mouton and the head of psychiatry at the addiction department at the "Paul-Bruce" hospital, Amin Benjamina, suggest that children under the age of 3 should not be exposed to screens, including TV. According to them, no child under the age of 11 should have a phone in their hands.
