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According to Blast, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu asked the four operators to be ready to cut access, and the operators voiced doubts in the meeting afterward. The article notes the same measure was used in New Caledonia in 2024 and was later overturned by the Conseil d'État.

Commenters outside France argued about whether blocking apps stops riots or just removes the witnesses.

The bill leaves messaging out (WhatsApp, Signal) and exempts YouTube Kids, then threatens multimillion-dollar fines for non-compliance, plus floated extras: overnight curfews and limits on infinite scroll for under-18s.

The author discloses he sits on a social-media board, which the thread treats as both a tell and a reason to discount him.

The harder asterisk comes from Australia's live version: a 15-year-old visitor reported it didn't touch existing accounts at all, because age checks there only gate newly created ones.