'I couldn't lose another friend': Korean teen calls for social media algorithm rules

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A petition was submitted to the National Assembly for a bill aimed at preventing teenage addiction to social networking services (SNS) and placing greater responsibility on platform service providers. "While companies come up with ways to keep teens addicted to SNS, the responsibility for overcoming that addiction falls on parents and teens themselves," Choi said. Kim Sun-min of the Rebuilding Korea Party, calling for more regulations of algorithms used by social media, saying he could not risk losing another friend to them.

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• Such measures, according to Choi, effectively hold teens accountable for algorithms designed and developed by companies to lure users into spending as much time as possible on their platforms.
• The Korean government, for its part, has introduced multiple measures to curb teenage addiction to smartphones and SNS.
• Among them are "smartphone-free schools" and a ban on teens under 14 accessing SNS.
• "The reason I submitted the petition was a frustration with regulations that focus only on

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The petitioner was 18-year-old Choi Kyung-jun.