‘Major step’: French MPs vote in favour of bill to ban social media for under-15s
Move is latest government push to shield minors from toxic content following Australia’s landmark legislation last year
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Parental controls for digital platforms can protect kids from social media’s dark side
Parents worry about toxic social media and their children accessing inappropriate content but they are not powerless in limiting access
‘They’ve all found workarounds’: Irish parents in Australia on the social media ban
‘Is it bad letting the government parent our kids? It’s impossible for us to police it,’ says one mother
Should we ban social media for under-16s? Irish teens share their thoughts
Australia’s ban on social media for children under 16 is being closely watched around the world - and also by young people
We need to end the great social experiment on our children
If 83% of Irish children have access to the internet at night, that means the entire online world has access to 83% of Irish children at night
It’s time to ban the toxic teen popularity counter
Now that the Australian social media ban is here, surveys that suggested 80% of parents supported it in theory are beginning to look wildly optimistic
A grand social media experiment begins in Australia. Will it work?
The country is trying to wean children under 16 off TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube and Instagram with a new law. Teenagers are sceptical
Social media ban: Irish parents in Australia - what is your experience?
Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, X, YouTube, Reddit will need to deactivate all accounts for under 16s from December 10th
Judge laments ‘lack of knowledge’ about sexual consent as man given three-year sentence
Offences took place in skatepark in January 2022, when both the man and the victim were 17
Man who travelled to Donegal to meet ‘fictional child’ to stand trial
Man (20s) charged with communicating with another person for purpose of facilitating sexual exploitation of a child
Teacher who had sexual relationship with Leaving Cert student is struck off by High Court
Social media contact with two students was innocuous at first but became sexualised, hearing told
‘I was horrified that any parent would give a nine-year-old a smartphone’
Ask Brian: More than a quarter of primary schoolchildren and a third of secondary school students are now using artificial intelligence
Amazon says most cloud services restored after widespread outage
Snapchat among popular sites hit by outage
Snapchat to begin charging users to store photo and video ‘memories’
‘It’s never easy to transition from receiving a service for free to paying for it,’ the company said
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