The opposition Christian Democratic People’s Party (KDNP) has submitted a bill to parliament that would ban children under the age of 13 from registering on social media platforms, following age verification.
Full social media ban may come following foreign examples
Csaba Latorcai, KDNP’s executive deputy leader, told an online press conference on Tuesday that the proposal was in line with European Union guidelines and mirrors existing laws in Denmark and Australia, the Hungarian News Agency wrote.
He insisted that Tisza government was practising “Facebook governance”, arguing that there were “no substantive bills, no state secretaries, or active parliament sessions”.
Zsuzsa Máthé, a KDNP lawmaker, said that under the party’s two-pronged proposal, devices would display warnings that digital use is not recommended for children under the age of 6. It would also require tech firms to enforce age checks to block under-13s from social media and enhance protections for under-16s, she added.
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They hope for national consensus
Máthé called digital child protection urgent, noting experts and parents have long warned of risks. She highlighted that while the Orbán government restricted smartphone use in schools to education, children remained unprotected outside classrooms.
She said KDNP hoped for national consensus and was seeking feedback on the proposal.
The KDNP – together with Orbán’s Fidesz – was in power with supermajority for almost 16 years.
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Ah yes, it for The Children!
And how can the over-13s access social media? Why, by proving their identity, of course! And so the tracking of yet another online activity begins.
If you then post something the government dislikes, they know exactly who you are. Expect a knock on the door at 5 A.M. from the “police,” coming to arrest you for your thought crime. Happens every day to dozens of people in places like Great Britain, Germany, and many others in the “democratic” parts of the world.
Kids under the age of 13 should indeed not be using social media. That, though, is for their parents and teachers to enforce, not the government.
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Try to do something useful in the mornings
Great initiative. This would truly protect children unlike previous governments ban on Pride and other nonsene laws. Children under 13 do not need social media. With todays tech, it is easy to prevent children from registering into these services with age verification. Relying just on parental control does not work, everybody knows that. Most of you, if not all of you have done things in childhood that your parents told not to do – being told not to do can even create even more interest into that forbidden thing.
And no, preventing registration is not the same as tracking all activities and ”arrest you for your thought crime.” Such thing do not happen in ”places like Great Britain, Germany, and many others in the “democratic” parts of the world.” Total nonsense propaganda claims.
Ah moving on in the digit world to control us.
I would say try something else.
If this goes we all need DI to join.
So I say goodbye to you all. Can somebody sent me a letter about things that are happening, (if that is still allowed.?)
Let it just be a proposal and “kill” that bill.
People who think this is no Threat to us adults and our live are deep in denial.
O you of silly hearts.
Offcourse it will. It already does.