Recital 26

For online social networking services and video-sharing platform services, the measures taken by providers of those services to comply with the obligations set out in this Regulation should ensure that, once minors have created their own account to use the service, they continue to benefit from a safe digital environment. While those measures mitigate the risks arising from the particular functionalities and features of such services for minors above the age of 15 years, online social network services and video sharing platforms nevertheless remain inappropriate for minors below that age. Compliance with those obligations should therefore not affect the general restriction on minors creating their own account below that age.