French MPs approve law seeking ban on social media for children below 15
President Emmanuel Macron hails the vote as a ‘major step’ to protect French children and teenagers.

President Emmanuel Macron hails the vote as a ‘major step’ to protect French children and teenagers.










This episode of The Stream asks: Is the internet as we know it on its way out?
‘Soon, you’ll no longer be able to use Facebook’, Meta said in messages it sent to young people ahead of the ban.
Israel is losing support in two of its key battlegrounds: the hearts and minds of Americans.
Judge says defendants caused ‘deterioration’ in French First Lady Brigitte Macron’s ‘physical and mental health’.
Amazon Web Services, a cloud platform that supports a portion of the internet, experienced a massive outage on Monday.
Amazon Web Services outages had knocked many global websites and apps offline, including Signal, Coinbase and Robinhood.
The UK is eyeing India’s controversial digital ID system for inspiration. Critics say it is fraught with problems.

The Taliban has denied implementing a nationwide internet ban, following a communications blackout across Afghanistan.
Telecommunications down after Taliban authorities cut fibre-optic connections in several provinces to prevent ‘vice’.