The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has proposed a draft set of measures to fight social media addiction among young people, including asking social networking service (SNS) operators to be stricter in verifying the ages of their users.
However, according to the draft, the ministry does not consider a uniform age restriction such as that implemented by Australia as desirable.
The communications ministry on Tuesday presented the draft to a meeting of a panel of experts with the hopes of coming up with a policy by the end of this year after discussing the issue with the Children and Families Agency as well as other related ministries.
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