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A French-speaking motion wants to protect minors from the harmful effects of platforms. The intention is to launch the debate in the cantons.
Elected officials from all political stripes will table an intercantonal motion in the seven cantonal parliaments of French-speaking Switzerland. The text calls for legislation to protect minors of compulsory school age from the harmful effects of social networks.
It appeared urgent to act, wrote Thursday in a press release the office of the Interparliamentary Commission for Control of the French-speaking School Convention, at the origin of the initiative. “Currently, there is no regulation of access to social networks and a federal prevention program is essential,” he emphasizes.
The intention is to launch the debate in the cantons with a view to providing impetus at the national level. Switzerland is in fact not immune to the problems linked to this issue, notes the office.
And to emphasize that school managements are increasingly confronted with conflicts between students – when it is not between parents and students – generated on social networks. Arguments start online and continue on the way to school or in the playgrounds.
Fragility young people
Today, epidemiological studies show that depressive symptoms are increasing among adolescents and even pre-adolescents, a population hitherto spared from these disorders. According to specialists, there is a certain fragility among young people: suffering is present in all these age groups.
The movers point out that in view of the numerous problems encountered, several European or non-European countries, including Australia recently, have undertaken to legislate to regulate access to social networks by minors. (jzs/ats)
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