{"id":538660,"date":"2026-03-28T09:47:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T04:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=538660"},"modified":"2026-03-28T09:47:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T04:47:05","slug":"austria-plans-social-media-ban-for-children-under-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/austria-plans-social-media-ban-for-children-under-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Austria plans social media ban for children under 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> VIENNA<br \/>\nAustria\u2019s conservative-led, three-party government plans to introduce a ban on social media use for children under 14, it said on Friday.<br \/>\nCabinet members from the three ruling parties announced a deal between them on the principle of a ban, aimed at protecting children from \u201calgorithms that are addictive\u201d and content including sexual abuse, but could not \u200csay when \u200cit would begin, and they have \u200cyet to agree on how it will be implemented.<br \/>\n\u201cWe will decisively protect children and young people in future from the negative effects of social media,\u201d Vice Chancellor Andreas Babler of the Social Democrats said.<br \/>\n\u201cWe will no longer stand by and watch while \u200cthese platforms make our \u200cchildren addicted and often also sick &#8230; The risks associated \u200cwith this use were ignored for \u200clong enough, and now it is time to act,\u201d he added.<br \/>\nAustralia introduced a social media ban for under-16s in December, the first country \u200cto do so. Various countries are considering or moving toward similar bans. France\u2019s lower house of parliament approved a ban for under-15s in January.<br \/>\nDraft legislation for Austria\u2019s ban would be drawn up by the end of June, Babler and conservative junior minister for digitization Alexander Proell said.<br \/>\nBabler also said the government would not list individual platforms the ban would apply to but rather would decide based on how addictive their algorithms are and whether they include content such as \u201csexualized violence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIENNA Austria\u2019s conservative-led, three-party government plans to introduce a ban on social media use for children under 14, it said on Friday. 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