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Denmark’s authorities connected Friday (November 7, 2025) announced a governmental statement to prohibition entree to societal media for anyone aged nether 15.
The move, led by the Ministry of Digitalization, would acceptable the property bounds for entree to societal media but springiness immoderate parents — aft a circumstantial appraisal — the close to springiness consent to fto their children entree societal media from property 13.
Such a measurement would beryllium among the astir sweeping steps yet by a European authorities to code concerns astir the usage of societal media among teens and younger children.
It would travel upon a determination successful December successful Australia, wherever Parliament enacted the world’s archetypal prohibition connected societal media for children — mounting the minimum property astatine 16.
That made platforms including TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, X and Instagram taxable to fines of up to 50 cardinal Australian dollars ($33 million) for systemic failures to forestall children younger than 16 from holding accounts.
“As 1 of the archetypal countries successful the EU, Denmark is present taking a groundbreaking measurement towards introducing property limits connected societal media. This is done to support children and young radical successful the integer world.”
The Ministry said successful a connection that a conjugation of parties connected some close and near “are making it wide that children should not beryllium near unsocial successful a integer satellite wherever harmful contented and commercialized interests are excessively overmuch a portion of shaping their mundane lives and childhoods.”
“Children and young radical person their slumber disrupted, suffer their bid and concentration, and acquisition expanding unit from integer relationships wherever adults are not ever present,” it said.
“This is simply a improvement that nary parent, teacher oregon pedagogue tin halt alone,” the Ministry added.
