{"id":77959,"date":"2026-08-16T09:20:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T09:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/77959\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T09:20:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T09:20:05","slug":"why-frances-under-15-social-media-ban-was-blocked-france-24-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/77959\/","title":{"rendered":"Why France&#8217;s under-15 social media ban was blocked \u2022 FRANCE 24 English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Why France&#039;s under-15 social media ban was blocked \u2022 FRANCE 24 English\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZNdgwakA4Cc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhy France&#8217;s under-15 social media ban was blocked \u2022 FRANCE 24 English<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFrance&#8217;s attempt to ban social media for under-15s has been blocked by the Constitutional Council, which ruled the measure unconstitutional. Speaking to FRANCE 24, Peter Craddock, Senior Attorney advising social media companies, said the decision was unsurprising, arguing that the proposed law imposed a blanket ban without taking into account differences between platforms or children&#8217;s levels of maturity. The court found that the measure infringed on the fundamental freedom of expression and information.<br \/>\n#France #SocialMediaBan #ConstitutionalCouncil<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd14 Subscribe to France 24 now: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTen<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd34 LIVE &#8211; Watch FRANCE 24 English 24\/7 here: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTliveEN<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0d Read the latest International News and Top Stories: https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Like us on Facebook: https:\/\/f24.my\/FBen<br \/>\nFollow us on X: https:\/\/f24.my\/Xen<br \/>\nBluesky: https:\/\/f24.my\/BSen and Threads: https:\/\/f24.my\/THen<br \/>\nBrowse the news in pictures on Instagram: https:\/\/f24.my\/IGen<br \/>\nDiscover our TikTok videos: https:\/\/f24.my\/TKen<br \/>\nGet the latest top stories on Telegram: https:\/\/f24.my\/TGen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why France&#8217;s under-15 social media ban was blocked \u2022 FRANCE 24 English France&#8217;s attempt to ban social media&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[28710,63652,63938,52975,50,22,23,54802,63939,20,21,33153,60773,34176,5220,4261,63940,42,4038,16065,4836],"class_list":["post-77959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france24","tag-age-verification","tag-children-online","tag-constitutional-council","tag-digital-rights","tag-france","tag-france-24","tag-france-24-english","tag-france-social-media-ban","tag-france-under-15-social-media-ban","tag-france24","tag-france24-english","tag-freedom-of-expression","tag-freedom-of-information","tag-french-government","tag-macron","tag-online-safety","tag-peter-craddock","tag-social-media","tag-social-media-platforms","tag-social-media-regulation","tag-under-15s"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117104557582575424","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}