Members of European Parliament are considering social media bans and age verification requirements as means to protect children online, Euractiv reports. The discussions come as MEPs draft an own-initiative report on the protection of minors and social platforms lobby to push verification obligations to an app-store level. Hungarian MEP Dóra Dávid said individuals under 16 should have to obtain parental consent before using social platforms, arguing, “if a platform like Facebook wants teens on board, they should ask the parents, not hide behind Apple or Google.”
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