Egypt to adopt restrictions on children’s social media use to fight 'digital chaos'

Egypt is exploring ways to modulate children's usage of societal media

CAIRO -- Egypt's Parliament is looking into ways to modulate children’s usage of societal media platforms to combat what lawmakers called “digital choas,” pursuing immoderate occidental countries that are considering banning young teenagers from societal media.

The House of Representatives said successful a connection precocious Sunday that it volition enactment connected a authorities to modulate children’s usage of societal media and “put an extremity to the integer chaos our children are facing, and which negatively impacts their future.”

Legislators volition consult with the authorities and adept bodies to draught a instrumentality to “protect Egyptian children from immoderate risks that endanger its thoughts and behavior," the connection said.

The connection came aft President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi connected Saturday urged his authorities and lawmakers to see adopting authorities restricting children’s usage of societal media, “until they scope an property erstwhile they tin grip it properly.”

The president's televised comments urged his authorities to look astatine different countries including Australia and the United Kingdom that are moving connected legislations to “restrict oregon ban” children from societal media.

About 50% of children nether 18 successful Egypt usage societal media platforms wherever they are apt exposed to harmful content, cyberbullying and abuse, according to a 2024 study by the National Center for Social and Criminological Research, a government-linked deliberation tank.

In December, Australia became the archetypal state to prohibition societal media for children younger than 16. The determination triggered fraught debates astir exertion use, privacy, kid information and intelligence wellness and has prompted different countries to see akin measures.

The British authorities said it volition see banning young teenagers from societal media portion tightening laws designed to support children from harmful contented and excessive surface time.

French President Emmanuel Macron urged his authorities to fast-track the ineligible process to guarantee a societal media prohibition for children nether 15 tin beryllium enforced astatine the commencement of the adjacent schoolhouse twelvemonth successful September.

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