Social media ban for under-15s: 'Parents are being asked to do the dirty work that the government has refused to impose'

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very evening, in thousands of French households, the same scene is playing out: an exhausting war of attrition to limit phone use, wearing families down. This is the direct result of digital products engineered by some of the world's brightest minds to maximize attention time – especially, perhaps, that of developing brains.

Faced with this reality, banning social media for those under 15 might seem like an obvious answer. Protective. Responsible. But this is only true on the surface. Behind this measure lies a dangerous shifting of responsibility: Families are being left to compensate, every day and in the privacy of their homes, for what platforms worth trillions of dollars have deliberately optimized to be irresistible. Parents are being asked to do the "dirty work" that the government has refused to impose on digital giants.

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