{"id":51063,"date":"2026-02-20T16:18:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T21:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=51063"},"modified":"2026-02-20T16:18:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T21:18:28","slug":"frances-social-media-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/20\/frances-social-media-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"France&rsquo;s Social Media Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/europe\/2026\/0127\/1555251-france-social-media-ban\/\">RT&Eacute;<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=46776272\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/europe\/2026\/0127\/1555251-france-social-media-ban\/\">\n<p>French politicians have passed a bill that will ban social media use by under-15s, a move championed by President Emmanuel Macron as a way to protect children from excessive screen time.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>It will now go to the Senate, France's upper house, ahead of becoming law.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The legislation, which also provides for a ban on mobile phones in high schools, would make France the second country to take such a step following Australia's ban for under-16s in December.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/17\/australias-social-media-ban\/\">Australia&rsquo;s Social Media Ban<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RT&Eacute; (Hacker News): French politicians have passed a bill that will ban social media use by under-15s, a move championed by President Emmanuel Macron as a way to protect children from excessive screen time. [&#8230;] It will now go to the Senate, France's upper house, ahead of becoming law. [&#8230;] The legislation, which also provides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-02-20T21:18:31Z","apple_news_api_id":"bc66ab49-78cf-4e7b-8d31-71d96d48e5cd","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-02-20T21:18:31Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AvGarSXjPTnuNMXHZbUjlzQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1650,2169,209,96],"class_list":["post-51063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-children","tag-france","tag-legal","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51064,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51063\/revisions\/51064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}