Ban on social networks for children: Greece, Spain and Portugal introduce new rules

And Spain announced on Tuesday that it plans to ban social networks for under-16s and announced that it will hold the directors of online platforms personally responsible for hate speech on their sites.

A day earlier, a bill was submitted to the Portuguese Parliament to ban social networks for those under the age of 16, without parental consent.

This is a new indicator of the strict approach of European countries towards technological platforms that they claim expose minors to harmful content and are purposefully designed to create addiction.

These countries thus join about twenty other countries such as France and Great Britain that are considering bans on social networks for minors, after Australia in December became the first country in the world to ban access to platforms for those under the age of 16.

The Australian Internet Security Agency announced in mid-January that the tech giants have blocked 4.7 million user accounts of minors.