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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.

Reuters rounds up a wave of near-simultaneous laws restricting minors' access to social platforms. A reader back in the UK described the lived version: he can't read half of X without handing over a government ID to prove he's an adult.

The argument wasn't whether kids should be protected, it was the mechanism. Engineers sketched cryptographic age-proofs that reveal one bit and nothing else, then asked why the actual laws reach for face scans and license uploads instead.