Some EU countries want to limit children and teenagers' access to Internet

Spain, Greece and France are demanding that the European Commission introduce a pan-European age verification system and set a minimum age for accessing social networks. This was reported by Euroactiv on Monday, May 19.

The digital ministers of Spain, Greece and France said that some information from the Internet stimulates health problems in minors, as they constantly compare themselves with what they see.

"The solution is to step up work on legislation that limits access to questionable and addictive content for young people, while strengthening the ability of parents to limit the use of social media platforms and adult sites," the material says.

The European Commission is preparing a pan-European application to verify the age of users, but some countries want to set restrictions so that minors do not have access to social networks.

France and Greece support banning social media for users under 15, but Spain wants to keep the debate open at the EU level. Spain and France are introducing mandatory age verification for adult sites, and Greece has launched an age verification app.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, on March 13, the head of the Committee on Freedom of Speech of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, said that the aggressor country of russia is recruiting and killing Ukrainian teenagers through Telegram, so the messenger should be restricted.