Singapore is enforcing enhanced regulatory standards on major social media platforms to improve online safety for children and youths. Under the regulatory measures, designated social media services must introduce safeguards to protect young users from online harms, such as cyberbullying, self-harm material, and sexual content. The guidelines require platforms to implement age-assurance processes, establish high-privacy defaults for youth accounts, provide functional parental management tools, and maintain accessible reporting mechanisms to address harmful content and unwanted interactions.
- Social media platforms must deploy effective age-assurance systems to identify underage users and restrict access to age-inappropriate material.
- Accounts belonging to children and youths are required to be set to the highest privacy configurations by default to prevent unsolicited contact.
- Platforms are mandated to minimize exposure to harmful content, including material depicting self-harm, violence, suicide, and sexual exploitation.
- Services must provide parents and guardians with tools to monitor and manage their children’s screen time, visibility, and privacy settings.
- Clear and accessible reporting channels must be maintained to allow users to report safety concerns and seek swift remediation.
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Make them stop pushing short form video, they are so addicting to doom scroll
Watching her talk makes me more depressed than scrolling reels.
Don’t use it?
How about banning it for adults, especially the parents who doom scroll in front of their kids 😂 they're the real addicts and youths are following their bad example.