Prohibition of social networks for children under 15 years, digital curfew, limitation one hour per day for minors … in a forum entitled “To save our young people, we attacked the screens” published on Tuesday in Le Figaro, Gabriel Attal, deputy of Hauts-de-Seine and general secretary of the Renaissance party, and the child psychiatrist Marcel Rofo formulates shock proposals to combat the youngest addiction to the screens.
“The state of emergency must be declared against the screens,” they write.
A “digital curm”
Among the measures they recommend: a prohibition of social networks before the age of 15 “. In the same way that we have imposed age controls for pornographic sites, we must do so for social networks,” they argue. And for minors, they invite “radical but absolutely essential” measure: a limitation at one hour per day access to social networks.
Gabriel Attal and Marcel Rofo also recommend the implementation of a “systematic” digital curm for young people between 15 and 18 years. This curfew would apply from 10 pm to 8 am “without exception.” The objective: “detoxify our young people,” they point out.
Because the harmful effects of screens are numerous, both in mental health and in the development of children, such as their educational performance or even bullying. They remember that teenagers pass between half and half an hour and five hours a day in front of a screen, “and soon more time in front of their screens than in school.”
More than a third of young people sleep less to remain in front of a screen, According to an insep study published last year. And about 11% of children aged 15 to 19 feel depressed after wearing screens.
Black and 30 minutes
Another planned solution: a black and white transition for at least one hour of thirty minutes of use of a social network. An initiative that would cause social networks to be less attractive: “color images cause dopamine generation and the creation of addictions, black and white images allow it to be avoided,” they explain.
Gabriel Attal and Marcel Rofo also suggest creating a “addict score” in the same principle as Nutri-Score, This labeling present in many foods ranging from A and according to its nutritional qualities. Each tool and service would be fixed to measure its danger and addictive risk.
In addition, the two men ask for the creation of a projection campaign for all 6th and second students to measure their degree of addiction. Therefore, the objective would be that each family could measure the personal situation of their child, but also develop an inventory nationwide.
This detection campaign could be done as part of medical visits, through city medicine or school nurses. A campaign that could be inspired by the prevention meetings of the M’T dent program with the dental surgeon and the care offered every year to children and young people from 3 to 24 years, Details Health insurance.
Fiscal platforms
In addition, Gabriel Attal and Marcel Rofo believe that “addiction must have a cost for platforms.” “Tobacco and alcohol are recharged, but nothing asks for digital platforms.” Therefore, they propose to take 2% of their income generated in France to finance a fund dedicated to the research and management of the mental health of young people.
In the event that these platforms persist “to refuse to cooperate with us”, “we can have to go further”, evoking their prohibition. Albania I recently blocked Tiktok for a year after the death of a year of 14 years During a fight near a school linked to a conflict on social networks.
“The stake is immense,” they conclude. “It’s about saving the mental health of our youth. It is about protecting democracy, threatened by algorithmic bubbles and the premium with the most extreme words.”
“If we do nothing, the screens and their content will kill our young people with low fire and, in the end, our whole society.”
Source: BFM TV
