{"id":77240,"date":"2023-04-14T16:13:56","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T13:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=77240"},"modified":"2025-09-10T22:08:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T19:08:35","slug":"rights-groups-urge-meta-to-impose-age-limits-on-the-metaverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/rights-groups-urge-meta-to-impose-age-limits-on-the-metaverse\/","title":{"rendered":"Rights groups urge Meta to impose age limits on the metaverse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of human-rights organisations and internet-safety groups urged Meta to halt its plan to admit minors into Horizon Worlds, the metaverse. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-04-14\/meta-urged-to-halt-plans-allowing-minors-into-the-metaverse?leadSource=uverify%20wall\">Bloomberg<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/2\/7\/23589100\/meta-horizon-worlds-teen-users-metaverse\">began planning<\/a> to open its digital world to users aged 13 to 17 in February. At present the app is available only to those aged 18 and older.<\/p>\n<p>Activists say minors could face harassment and abuse in the metaverse, which is still in its early stages of development.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cMeta should wait for further research into the potential risks of the metaverse to be confident in the safety of children and adolescents,\u201d the letter says.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In March, EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/eu-regulators-target-metaverses\">stated<\/a> that metaverses could become the next target for regulators.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Meta representatives urged policymakers <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/meta-urges-policymakers-to-keep-hands-off-metaverse-regulation\">refrain from regulating digital worlds<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of human-rights organisations and internet-safety groups urged Meta to halt its plan to admit minors into Horizon Worlds, the metaverse. Bloomberg reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1293,1353,1361],"class_list":["post-77240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-meta","tag-metaverses","tag-virtual-world-innovations"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77242,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77240\/revisions\/77242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}