PM floats social media ban for under-16s at UN event

[InTime News]

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Wednesday that Greece is prepared to see banning κοινωνικά media use for children under 16.

He was speaking astatine a UN lawsuit successful New York hosted by Australia, titled “Protecting Children successful the Digital Age”, arsenic portion of the High-Level Week of the 80th UN General Assembly.

Mitsotakis stressed that immoderate such measurement would beryllium pursued successful adjacent practice with planetary partners. “We cannot invoke the difficulties successful implementing these policies arsenic an excuse for not doing thing astir the problem,” helium said.

He underlined the request for planetary enactment to code the risks of unchecked κοινωνικά media use.

“We are conducting the largest uncontrolled experimentation ever connected the minds of our children. We bash not cognize what the consequences will be, but we are astir definite that they will not beryllium positive,” helium warned.

The premier curate pointed to measures already taken successful Greece, including the prohibition connected mobile telephone use successful schools, which helium described arsenic having a “transformational interaction connected the acquisition experience.”

He besides highlighted the caller motorboat of the government’s parco.gov.gr platform, which, helium said, “provides an property verification mechanics and parental power application, giving parents substantial support successful protecting their children online.”