{"id":10288,"date":"2021-04-07T12:21:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T10:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/?post_type=hbi-publications&#038;p=10288"},"modified":"2026-08-24T12:24:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T10:24:00","slug":"youth-protection-act-new-but-also-better","status":"publish","type":"hbi-publications","link":"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/hbi-publications\/youth-protection-act-new-but-also-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Protection Act: New but Also Better?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"description\">The Youth Protection Act presents itself with some innovations in its reform, but are they really better than before? On Tagesspiegel Background, <a href=\"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/staff\/stephan-dreyer\">Dr. Stephan Dreyer<\/a> writes what he thinks of these changes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/background.tagesspiegel.de\/digitalisierung\/jugendschutzgesetz-neu-aber-auch-besser\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">To the article (online, in German)<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Abstract<\/h2>\n<p>When the Bundesrat refrained from invoking the Mediation Committee in the matter of the Youth Protection Act (JuSchG) at its last session, you probably heard the sigh of relief from the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ) in Glinkastrasse all the way to the Bundesrat building on Leipziger Platz. Now nothing stands in the way of the new regulations coming into force on 01 May 2021 and the first major modernisation of the JuSchG since 2002 is taking its course.<\/p>\n<p>Dreyer, S. (2021): Jugendschutzgesetz: Neu, aber auch besser? [Youth Protection Act: New but Also Better?] In: Tagesspiegel Background KI &amp; Digitalisierung, 07.04.2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/background.tagesspiegel.de\/digitalisierung\/jugendschutzgesetz-neu-aber-auch-besser\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/background.tagesspiegel.de\/digitalisierung\/jugendschutzgesetz-neu-aber-auch-besser<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2433,"template":"","tags":[398],"class_list":["post-10288","hbi-publications","type-hbi-publications","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-miscellaneous"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.6 (Yoast SEO v28.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Youth Protection Act: New but Also Better? - Leibniz HBI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/hbi-publications\/youth-protection-act-new-but-also-better\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Youth Protection Act: New but Also Better?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Youth Protection Act presents itself with some innovations in its reform, but are they really better than before? 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