Singapore plans daily social media limits and teen safeguards
Singapore is planning legislative interventions to impose daily social media time limits and mandate age checks for teenagers. These measures aim to curb addictive features like infinite scrolling and protect youth mental health.
Why it matters
This represents a significant shift toward government-led regulation of social media platforms to protect minors, moving beyond self-regulation.
Upcoming legislative changes to mandate age checks will underpin the mandatory safeguards for teen users.
Listen SINGAPORE – A daily time limit on social media is among several mandatory safeguards for teenagers that the Government is considering to combat features that fuel addiction and dangerous interactions .
This can help to introduce a natural stopping point, said Minister for Digital Development and Information Josephine Teo in a media interview on Aug 28.
“The very nature of infinite scroll is that you don’t have a natural stop point; you keep going on and on,” said Teo. “A time limit for the use of a particular platform... could be one way of dealing with infinite scroll.”
She added that daily time limits are being “seriously discussed”.
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