Days after Australia took measures to enforce under 16s social media ban from December, Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is following suit. The Danish PM on Tuesday announced that the authorities are deliberating over under 15s social media ban proposal, AFP reported.
At the opening message of Folketing, the Danish parliament, she said, “Never before have so many children and young people suffered from anxiety and depression" emphasising that this generation has "unleashed a monster."
Asserting that an increasing number of young adults are facing difficulty reading and concentrating at Folketing's autumn session, she noted, “On screens they see things no child or young person should see."
Without specifying which social networks the new measures would impact, she said that t