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On Monday, June 1, Malaysia began enforcing rules barring millions of children younger than 16 from owning social media accounts, joining a global effort to tighten online safety protections for young users.

The rules require social media platforms to implement age-verification systems and block users under 16 from creating accounts. They apply to platforms with at least 8 million users, including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. (via The Associated Press)

READ: https://mb.com.ph/2026/06/01/malaysia-enforces-ban-on-social-media-accounts-for-children-younger-than-16


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00:00This restriction will cause some imbalance to the children because they intend to know what is happening out there although
00:10they might have negative impact also because sometimes they will expose to unnecessary content.
00:20If they need social media I think it's because you can learn things like some they talk about news, some
00:29they talk about maths, some they talk about cooking and some talk about history.
00:36Social media is like a luxury and it's not a necessity so they don't really need it.
00:41We also understand that you cannot cut internet and the idea of social media and everything away from them totally
00:48because it's part and parcel of today's life.
00:52So they must be able to navigate it at least a little bit but not full access, very limited and
00:58monitored.
00:59Exposure is what we fear.
01:02See if you give them the internet and if they have free access.
01:04The wrong gun exposure.
01:05Yeah.
01:06If they are exposed to the things that they are not supposed to be exposed to you know that will
01:11do damage to the mind you know and the worst thing to damage is the mind.
01:15So we are very very concerned about it.
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