Sollten Kidfluencer verboten werden? Das ist der Plan in der EU | Es gibt nur wenige Gesetze zum Thema Kidfluencing, und Experten sagen, dass Kanada eines schaffen muss

Some key issues for consideration:

>This week, the EU announced plans to ban social media platforms from providing financial or material incentives for kidfluencing as part of a broad range of measures the EU believes will protect minors online.
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>With the top kidfluencers in the world earning millions a year, leaders in the European parliament are worried the lure of lucrative sponsorship deals may tempt some parents to pressure their children into constantly performing for homemade photos and videos.
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>While a few countries and U.S. states have crafted laws around their labour, some experts suggest banning kidfluencers may not be the best approach to actually protect kids, and point out that many countries have no specific legal protection at all for kidfluencers, including Canada.
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>The EUs proposal includes following Australia’s lead in banning children under the age of 16 from having any social media account without parental consent, and not allowing accounts at all for kids under 13.
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>Voices from inside and outside the influencer industry told CBC News that laws to protect kidfluencers are overdue in Canada and around the world.
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>“Regulation is definitely welcome,” said Samuel Dahan, an associate professor at Queen’s University Faculty of Law. “It should have been happening 10 years ago.”
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>“There should be rules and laws,” said Rossana Burgos, who’s better known as Mama Bee of the The Bee Family (formerly the Eh Bee Family), a family of influencers from Thornhill, Ont., who got started on social media in 2013 and quickly rose to fame.
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>One big supporter of a ban on kidfuencers is Karim S. Leduc, CEO of Montreal-based Dulcedo, a talent agency managing over 1,000 clients, including actors, athletes, gamers, influencers and models, though very few children.
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>“I think it should be banned,” he said. “Brands are willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars. Who’s to say that a parent who’s struggling with finance wouldn’t see that as a welcome opportunity to make that extra money, and would sacrifice their child’s wellbeing?”
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>Kara Brisson-Boivin, Director of Research for Media Smarts, an Ottawa based not-for-profit centre dedicated to digital and media literacy, says she believes a ban “would protect children from being used to develop or bring in income a variety of different ways.”
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>However she sees another side to a potential ban, which is that, “we also don’t want to stifle or limit child creativity, or limit children’s autonomy.”
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>Though Burgos welcomes regulation, she also says she can’t get behind a ban.
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>She says some parents can create a safe environment for their kids, and that the rise of social media has given individuals more creative power.
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>Dahan, the associate professor with Queen’s law raises other issues about a kidfluencer ban, which he says might be overly ambitious.
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>“The fact that the workplace is home makes it very, very complex from an enforcement standpoint,” he said, noting that automatically identifying the content could also be challenging.
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>He adds there’s the issue of “what constitutes really a kid influencer?” and whether a parent who shows their children occasionally in sponsored online posts would be breaking the law.

As with other aspects of big tech platforms and social media platforms in particular, a proper regulatory framework is long overdue. However, finding the right regulatory balance will be challenging. The solution, however, is not not continue to kick the can down the road for future generations to solve, but to deal with the issues here and now. It will be interesting to see how EU regulations go here, and what impacts it might have.

They should absolutely be banned from being kidfluencers. If they are it has to go into a trust that is released to them at 18. Parent’s aren’t able to draw on their earnings for living expenses either.

Stop the parents making these.

100%; the ridiculous nonsense my young niblings are already getting hooked on/are starting to believe is atrocious. Ban it all.

Influencers should be banned PERIOD! 

Will child actors and child athletes also be banned? Will parents also be banned from forcing their children to compete in academics? No? Then question what is the point of these regulations. It’s certainly not to protect kids.

From the article:

>One big supporter of a ban on kidfuencers is Karim S. Leduc, CEO of Montreal-based Dulcedo, a talent agency managing over 1,000 clients, including actors, athletes, gamers, influencers and models, though very few children.

>“I think it should be banned,” he said. “Brands are willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars. Who’s to say that a parent who’s struggling with finance wouldn’t see that as a welcome opportunity to make that extra money, and would sacrifice their child’s wellbeing?”

All I can say to this is… lol. Always follow the money.

Only car companies and questionable toys should influence my offspring. Not this oxipad from under the sink anime/s

Can we take it a step further and just ban all influencers? Period!