Mommy bloggers and TikTok parents in France could be forced to find a new source of income, as politicians are looking to ban parents from posting pictures and videos of their children online.
Thomas Rohmer, of the Observatory for Parenthood and Digital Education, said, “These practices amount to digital violence while the battle was successfully fought to get rid of spanking and other humiliating practices.”
Per indy100, Rohmer has even described these acts of “sharenting” as online abuse.
France’s junior minister for children, Charlotte Caubel, has backed the new bill which is expected to pass a first reading this week, saying: “We could suspend the parents’ exercise of the right to children’s images if they seriously abuse it. This is the case for those using the image to make money or boost their own image.”
If the bill passes, it would enable family court judges to deprive parents of rights over their child’s image.
The child would also need to be involved in any decision to share their image online “according to his or her age and degree of maturity.”
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