Minister of Transport Abdulkadir Uraloğlu said that social media should be restricted for people under the age of 16. Stating that they are working to make a regulation by 2025, Minister Uraloğlu said, “Children will not be able to open accounts on social media. In some countries, these accounts are opened with the approval of their parents. We do not want this. We want people under the age of 16 to not use social media.”
Minister of Transport Abdulkadir Uraloğlu made statements regarding the current agenda on a live broadcast with CNN Türk. “Will there be a social media ban on people under the age of 16?” Minister Uraloğlu, who answered the question, said, “There are many applications in the world on this subject. The issue is for our children to reach an age where they can really make their own decisions objectively. This age is discussed as 13 and 16 in the world. We also want our children under the age of 16 not to enter social media.”
“We are working on making a regulation in 2025,” said Uraloğlu, “We will also include game platforms. Of course, it is not at the point of preventing useful games that children should play. Children will not be able to open accounts on social media. In some countries, these accounts are opened with the approval of their parents. We do not want this. We want under the age of 16 not to enter social media.”
WILL ROBLOX AND DISCORD BE OPENED? Minister Uraloğlu, who also gave the signal that Roblox and Discord will be opened, said the following: “The game platform did not have a representative in Turkey, they contacted us as a result of the sanctions we made against them with court decisions. If there is useful content on a platform, ‘We will not be able to prevent their losses “We think ‘let them come out, we can continue with the useful ones’. There is a traffic of talks going on, if we come to the right place in that sense, it may be possible to reopen them as a result of the legal process,” he said.
