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The European Commission has proposed the KIDS Act, which would ban social media use by those under 13 and restrict usage for 13- and 14-year-olds with parent-supervised "mini accounts." The act also mandates that platforms remove addictive features like infinite scrolling and push notifications during sleep hours. For children's profiles, geolocation, camera, and microphone access must be disabled by default. Social media companies with over 45 million EU users would need to present compliance plans. This regulation aims to standardize online protections for children across all EU countries, replacing varying national rules.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-09-17,
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Story summary
The European Commission is set to propose a ban restricting children under 13 from accessing social media, video-sharing platforms, AI chatbots, and online games. The proposal, part of the "EU KIDS Act," aims to protect children's health and safety amid growing concerns over digital platform risks. For those aged 13-14, parents will have to set up limited accounts with strict time limits under parental control, allowing no more than one hour per day of usage. The plan also mandates that tech companies design their platforms "safe by default" for children and remove potentially addictive features like infinite scrolling. While the proposal faces privacy concerns from tech lobbying groups, it is expected to undergo negotiations with EU countries and the European Parliament before becoming law.
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What is in the EU's planned KIDS Act?
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The European Commission has proposed banning under-13s from social media and requiring platforms to design online services that are safe for all children's accounts.
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Here are the details of the proposed EU KIDS Act, which will require approval from European Union governments and the European Parliament and could be revised before it is enacted.
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The proposed regulation bans social media accounts for those aged under 13, allows parent-supervised "mini accounts" for children aged 13 and 14, and independent accounts only for those 15 years and older.
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For 13- and 14-year-olds, a guardian would be able to set up a limited account that the guardian will control, with a daily limit of up to an hour of age-appropriate social media and video-sharing platforms.
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guardian → set → media
For teenagers with existing accounts, platforms would have to check — within six months of the rules applying — whether existing account holders will have to disable the accounts of children under 15 or for those whose age cannot be established.
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Checks would not be required if platforms can tell with high confidence that users are adults.
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users → require → confidence
Age will be verified with certified solutions independent of platforms, including a planned European Digital Identity Wallet.
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WHAT SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES MUST DO
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The EU KIDS Act sets obligations for all social media, video sharing, online video games, AI companions and chatbots for users below the age of 18.
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These include bans on addictive features, profiling-based recommender feeds and personalised ads or algorithms based on past activity.
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The Act would prevent infinite scrolling without breaks, reward 'tricks', unsolicited contact from strangers and push notifications during sleeping hours, defined as eight consecutive hours between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m.
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companions and chatbots must be turned off by default.
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Profiles for children must be private by default, with geolocation, camera and microphone access turned off.
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access → turn → default
The burden of proof will be on platforms to show they are safe for children.
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they → show → children
Platforms with 45 million or more active monthly users in the EU will have to present compliance plans before coming into contact with children.
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Platforms → have → children
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO EXISTING NATIONAL RULES?
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The provisions of the EU Kids Act are designed to replace a patchwork of different rules in separate EU countries with the same level of protection across the bloc.
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France has pushed for an EU-wide ban for under-15s after France's Constitutional Court struck down a national bill before it was due to take effect in September, saying it infringed on freedom of expression.
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