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.
Devices have a mandatory child-mode that tracks it. ISPs too which requires a login with account attached to a real ID. This wasn’t really very difficult for China to implement though because they’ve used real ID for online accounts for multiple decades already with associated normalisation and trust.
I think you can achieve the same thing with a degree of separation through something like the EU’s digital wallet initiative so neither the website nor the government actually gets an identity of the user. I have not heard criticisms of that but it also seems like a fairly new idea, some may emerge.
How do they impose it?
Devices have a mandatory child-mode that tracks it. ISPs too which requires a login with account attached to a real ID. This wasn’t really very difficult for China to implement though because they’ve used real ID for online accounts for multiple decades already with associated normalisation and trust.
I think you can achieve the same thing with a degree of separation through something like the EU’s digital wallet initiative so neither the website nor the government actually gets an identity of the user. I have not heard criticisms of that but it also seems like a fairly new idea, some may emerge.