French government renews bill banning SNS for youth under 15

I hope the bill goes into effect before I leave office.

(London = Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Ji-yeon = The French government is re-promoting the policy of banning the use of social media (SNS) by youth under the age of 15, which was ruled unconstitutional.

According to AFP, French President Emmanuel Macron said on

Notification of EU legislation is a key legislative procedure to ensure that member state laws do not conflict with EU law.

President Macron has made the policy of banning youth SNS use a priority and has hoped for it to take effect before he leaves office in May next year.

The first bill was passed by the Senate and House of Representatives last July, prohibiting youth under the age of 15 from opening SNS accounts and requiring accounts already created to be closed after a grace period.

However, France's constitutional committee, the Constitutional Council, ruled on the 14th of last month that this bill was unconstitutional, saying it was an 'inappropriate, unnecessary and disproportionate' infringement on the freedom of expression and communication of youth under the age of 15.

Although the Constitutional Committee did not deny the need to protect youth from the dangers of SNS, it was interpreted as considering the bill's uniform ban method to limit basic rights, and the Macron government announced that it would revise the bill and re-promote it.