Spain will ban access to social media for minors under 16 years old, obliging the platforms to have age verification systems, within the framework of broader measures for social media, such as a monitoring system of hate speech on the internet, according to the Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez.
“Our children are exposed to a space that was never intended for them to navigate alone… We will not accept this anymore,” Pedro said addressing the World Government Summit in Dubai, calling also other European countries to adopt similar measures.
Sánchez stated that Spain has joined together with 5 European countries in a “Coalition of the Digitally Willing,” which will hold its first meeting in the coming days.
Australia was the first that implemented such legislation and France and the U.K. are to follow.
Spain will also submit next week a bill for the accountability of executives of social media for illegal content and hate speech, as well as for the criminalization of algorithmic manipulation and of the strengthening of illegal content.
His government will begin the process of voting the relevant legislation already from next week, he added.
Australia was the first that implemented such legislation and France and the U.K. are expected to follow. France in January voted in the Lower House the ban of social media for persons under 15 years old and it remains for the Senate to vote the same.
Source: Reuters
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