Bans do not bring any special resultsand there is no evidence that a ban will bring a big change, the SKAI stressed to SKAI Eugenia Bozu, Head of Google Greece’s government affairs and public policy, commenting on the possibility of a ban on social media for children under 16 in Greece that the government is considering.

The ban is the last medium, And I think the government has not formed a final decision, he explained.

For us the important thing is for children to be safe on the internet, I want to believe that Tiktok will have its own compliance mechanisms in national and European directives. Children are very much for youtube to learn, but also to create their own content.

As Google’s executive pointed out, the concerns are justified, And governments with their institutions have been activated very well to avoid risks such as addiction or online violence, as technology plays an increasingly important role daily. It is a terribly complicated issue, Google has for many years developed the part of parental control with the Family Link, which gives many opportunities for the family to protect its members, and gradually and more freedoms with the age of the child, he said.

27% of Greek adolescents, in the European average, perhaps a little further, use AE daily for school work, searching for information, creating information, while 71% believe that this interaction enhances their own creativity and does not replace it, he also said, commenting on Google’s research.

School should have as purpose of developing critical thinking In children, beyond knowledge, I think this purpose is, and this is not the technology replacement, he underlined. He said, among other things, that Google with the support of the Ministry of Education inaugurated the “Experience AI” in Greece, designed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Google Deepmind. He enters the school curriculum.