Prince Harry Wants New Laws Put in Place To Protect Children on Social Media

When it comes to children, Prince Harry is very passionate about keeping them safe online.

During a virtual appearance at the 5Rights Foundation’s Global Child Online Safety Toolkit webinar on Monday (May 16), the 37-year-old Duke of Sussex is calling for more protections for children around the world when they go online.

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Harry said that while his two children – Archie and Lilibet, whom he shares with wife, Meghan Markle – are a bit too young to experience any kind of online world right now, he’s looking towards the future.

“As parents, my wife and I are concerned about the next generation growing up in a world where they are treated as digital experiments for companies to make money and where things like hatred and harm are somehow normalized,” he shared. “We want our children and all children to feel empowered to speak up.”

Harry added that Archie, 3, and Lili, almost one, are “still at their age of innocence. Sometimes, I feel like I can keep them away from the online harm that they could face in the future forever, but I’m learning to know better.”

He agreed that much of social media “isn’t working and needs to be fixed” as it is meant to “pull us in, keep us scrolling, get us angry or anxious — or make us numb to the world around us.”

“I’m not an expert on law or technology, but I am a father — and I’m lucky enough to be a father with a platform,” he shared. “My kids are too young to have experienced the online world yet, and I hope they never have to experience it as it exists now. No kid should have to.”

This isn’t the first time Harry has spoken out about the dangers of social media.