{"id":9553,"date":"2019-02-06T15:21:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T14:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/?post_type=hbi-publications&#038;p=9553"},"modified":"2026-08-06T15:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T13:24:13","slug":"its-complicated-protecting-minors-from-harmful-media-content-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"hbi-publications","link":"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/hbi-publications\/its-complicated-protecting-minors-from-harmful-media-content-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Complicated: Protecting Minors from Harmful Media Content in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His objective has the protection of minors from harmful media clearly in sight: to enable children and young people to grow up safely with media. Risks and dangers in media relations should be kept away from them. But creating laws for it is anything but easy. Who regulates what in the protection of minors from harmful media in Germany?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/employee\/stephan-dreyer\/\">Dr. Stephan Dreyer<\/a>\u00a0gives an overview.<\/p>\n<p>The complete article is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutes-aufwachsen-mit-medien.de\/informieren\/article.cfm\/aus.2\/key.3422\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">available online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dreyer, S. (2019): <span lang=\"de\">&#8220;Es ist kompliziert: Jugendmedienschutz in Deutschland<\/span> [It&#8217;s Complicated: The Protection of Minors from Harmful Media in Germany]&#8221;, in:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutes-aufwachsen-mit-medien.de\/informieren\/article.cfm\/aus.2\/key.3422\">https:\/\/www.gutes-aufwachsen-mit-medien.de\/informieren\/article.cfm\/aus.2\/key.3422<\/a>\u00a0(06 February 2019)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2579,"template":"","tags":[398],"class_list":["post-9553","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>It&#039;s Complicated: Protecting Minors from Harmful Media Content in Germany - 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\/its-complicated-protecting-minors-from-harmful-media-content-in-germany\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"It&#039;s Complicated: Protecting Minors from Harmful Media Content in Germany\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"His objective has the protection of minors from harmful media clearly in sight: to enable children and young people to grow up safely with media. 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