Grabois presented a project to censor social networks for children under 18

The communist deputy Juan Grabois presented in Congress an authoritative bill to create a “Comprehensive Digital Education Program (EDI)”, an initiative that seeks to regulate the use of social networks in children under 18 years of age within the education system.

The proposal was promoted together with legislators from different political spaces, including sectors of Peronism, the Radical Civic Union and former members of the PRO.

Grabois himself announced the initiative on his X account, where he highlighted the creators of the project: “What can those of us who think differently do together? What could Nicolás Massot, Maximiliano Ferraro, Monica Frade, Blanca Osuna, Paula Penacca, Fernanda Ávila, Juan Carlos Molina, Marcelo Mango and me do together? We introduced a bill to urgently create a Comprehensive Digital Education (EDI) Program. A digital ESI”.

Along the same lines, the deputy justified the project by linking recent cases of threats in schools to the use of networks: “Lately we haven't stopped seeing horrible news about what is happening in schools and what happens to our children and adolescents with social networks

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The text of the project establishes that Integral Digital Education will be mandatory at all levels of the education system, both in public and private schools and in all jurisdictions of the country.

The enforcement authority would be the Ministry of Human Capital, through the Ministry of Education, which will be responsible for the design and execution of the program at the national level.

According to the initiative, the EDI that the State should teach minors to have an alleged “responsible, critical and comprehensive use of information technologies”.

The planned contents include "digital education, media education, digital citizenship, computational thinking and a gender and intersectional perspective”.

The project also proposes mandatory training for teachers and the generation of spaces for participation for families, with the objective of accompanying the educational process in relation to the use of digital platforms and social networks by minors

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Regarding its application, the program must be implemented transversally at all levels of education, adapted to each jurisdiction but with guidelines defined by the national State.

However, the mandatory design and the inclusion of ideological biases in the project generated controversy due to the refusal of the State to advance in the regulation of digital content and in the supposed “training of minors” in the use of social networks and technology

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Finally, Grabois proposed closing the Legislative Branch in case the proposal does not move forward: “If we cannot agree on this basic and urgent beginning, we have to

close the Congress”.