The European Commission has proposed the KIDS Act, a regulation that would ban children under 13 from creating social media accounts and restrict those aged 13 and 14 to parent-controlled "mini accounts" capped at one hour of daily use. The legislation would require platforms to eliminate addictive design features — such as infinite scrolling, personalised recommendation feeds, and late-night push notifications — for all users under 18, with children's profiles set to private by default and AI chatbots switched off unless enabled. The proposal, which still requires approval from EU governments and the European Parliament, aims to replace a fragmented set of national child-safety laws across member states with a single, enforceable standard — a move partly driven by France, whose own attempt at a national under-15 ban was struck down by its Constitutional Court on free-expression grounds.