Why banning social media for under-15s is complicated (understatement) and even risky

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Because Emmanuel Macron, without anyone really knowing why, is making a connection between the terrible murder in Nogent and social media, he is calling for online age control. This opens up a perilous path: the widespread use of online identity checks.
Emotion rules. Emmanuel Macron is succumbing to Nicolas Sarkozy's trademark , who, starting in 2002, responded to every news story with the promise of a law. Following the terrible murder of a school monitor on Tuesday, June 10, in Nogent (Haute-Marne) by a 14-year-old boy, the president delivered a decisive decision on France 2:
" We can't wait […]. We must ban social networks for those under 15."
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