Overview
- The president signed the decree on Wednesday that requires digital platforms to block, classify or remove content that exposes children and adolescents to hate speech, sexual abuse, self‑harm, school violence and other listed risks.
- Companies must implement age verification, age‑based content labels, default privacy and security settings for minors, and parental supervision tools while publishing the criteria they use to remove content.
- Platforms have 30 days from the decree’s entry into force to report what technical and policy changes they made to the Agencia de Transformación Digital y Telecomunicaciones, a deadline that firms asked for during government talks.
- The decree obliges firms to keep 24/7 points of contact with authorities, preserve digital evidence and notify investigators of life‑threatening threats, with the Centro Nacional de Inteligencia able to coordinate when crimes are suspected.
- Legal and technical experts warned the measure raises unresolved issues—how to verify age at scale, vague definitions of banned material, risks to news and free speech, and potential conflicts with trade and intermediary‑liability rules—while the government pairs the decree with school mental‑health programs like the SEP’s ABC de las Emociones and the Línea de la Vida.