Overview
- The presidency publicly presented the draft Decreto para garantizar entornos digitales seguros para niñas, niños y adolescentes on Friday, announcing it will be refined with tech companies and targeted for publication in the Diario Oficial de la Federación between Tuesday October 13 and Wednesday October 14.
- The draft forbids platforms from allowing minors to access, be exposed to, or receive recommendations for content in defined risk categories such as hate and violent extremism, sexual exploitation, suicide and self-harm, eating disorders, school violence, harassment and cyberbullying, illicit conduct, and explicit sexual material.
- It imposes eight operational duties on platforms including rapid identification and removal of violent content and accounts, age-based content classification, default privacy and safety settings for minor accounts, parental supervision tools, 24/7 authority contact points, evidence preservation, and immediate alerts to authorities for life-threatening material.
- The decree contains no immediate punitive sanctions and asks companies to join voluntarily while the government will set up inter-agency and industry working groups to monitor compliance and consider stronger regulation if platforms fail to act.
- The measure is paired with prevention and mental-health supports such as the Línea de la Vida (800 911 2000) and the El ABC de las emociones program, and it aims to reduce online risks that officials say were linked to a recent attack in Torreón.