Malaysian parents back curbs on ‘brain rot’ excess of social media

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Malaysian parents welcomed a plan to bar children from having social media accounts, but were less enthused by a proposal to push state-sanctioned family content to curb consumption of damaging online material.Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil on Tuesday warned parents against an overreliance on mobile devices to serve as “digital nannies” to keep their children occupied, saying he had personally come across children who had their own TikTok accounts despite being below the minimum age limit...