Young people deserve better than a policy built on panic. We're happy to see France's top court acknowledge this and strike down the country's legislation banning social media for under-15s. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/french-top-court-gets-it-right-strikes-down-social-media-ban-youths
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Don't celebrate for too long : on the day the decision was made public, our president—who, like many men, doesn't understand the word “no”—asked the prime minister to work on a new version of the very same law. We'll never end this.
@eff Regulate platform behavior, not user behavior.
@eff In France it's also safer to go outside because they don't baby their psychotic motorists and allow them to get away with murder. So the kids there don't spend nearly as much time online.
They solved the problem by giving a shit about the world.
@eff you've lost the plot
@eff good start. Now legislate the algorithm out of existence and get platforms to stop farming reaction.
@eff I hope they take the obvious next step soon and finally ban personalized/editorialized social media for everyone...
@eff tbf it was impossible to enforce, so might as well avoid the backlash
