#HUNGARY LIFTS #BAN ON #UKRAINIAN #MEDIA: On June 19, #Hungarian #Minister of Social Affairs and #Culture Zoltán #Tarr announced that the ban on blacklisted Ukrainian #online #publications would be lifted. In September 2025, the #Orbán #government banned 12 Ukrainian online portals.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/78589
Hungary Lifts Ban on Ukrainian Media to Rebuild Bilateral Relations
The Hungarian government has lifted a 2025 restriction on Ukrainian media outlets, citing the need to provide refugees with native-language information and to normalize diplomatic ties with Kyiv.
#India’s temporary
#ban on
#Telegram, imposed to prevent exam-related fraud, led to a surge in
#VPN downloads and alternative messaging app usage. VPN downloads spiked by 49% on the day of the announcement, with Proton VPN and Turbo VPN seeing the largest increases. While Telegram usage remained high, users also explored alternatives like
#Signal and
#Viber.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/telegram-ban-in-india-sparks-a-rush-to-vpns-rival-apps/?eicker.news #tech #media #news 
Telegram ban in India sparks a rush to VPNs, rival apps | TechCrunch
Telegram argues India should block specific content, not an entire platform used by millions.
The UK’s New Under-16 Social Media Ban Will Cause More Harm Than It Prevents
This week, politicians in the UK pushed forward with plans to eviscerate privacy and free speech on the internet by announcing a ban on social media for users under 16 that is set to take effect in Spring 2027. The UK government continues to falsely characterize this policy as a necessary response...
🚫🤖 Ah,
#Norway, the brave land where
#AI is now banished from the hallowed halls of elementary schools. Because obviously, the best way to prepare kids for the
#future is to make sure they never encounter it. 🙄📝
https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/ #Ban #Education #Tech #Debate #HackerNews #ngated**Banning isn't safety. It's losing visibility.**
The #UAE 's new resolution setting a minimum age of 15 for #socialmedia use is well-intentioned, but as someone who's spent over a decade investigating online abuse, #fraud, and digital threats, I have to flag a critical flaw: outright bans don't remove risk, they remove oversight.
When a platform is fully off-limits, a determined child doesn't disappear — they go around it. Fake birthdates, #VPN s, borrowed parental identities. The result isn't a safer child. It's the same child, now invisible to any age-aware safety system, with zero content filtering and zero mechanism restrictions (no screen-time caps, no algorithmic guardrails, no DM protections).
Here's the part that doesn't add up: this resolution already requires platforms to implement "accurate and reliable age #verification mechanisms" to enforce the ban. That means the verification infrastructure — the hard, expensive part — has to exist either way. So why use it to lock kids out entirely, instead of using it to give them a properly restricted, age-appropriate experience?
We already have a working model. #Instagram 's Teen Accounts and #TikTok 's under-18 protections don't ban younger users — they #verify age and then restrict what that age group can do: limited DMs, screen-time defaults, no late-night notifications, curated content. That's harm reduction, not prohibition. And it keeps the child visible to the system designed to protect them.
What I do #support in this resolution the #ban on monetizing children's data through behavioral tracking. That's a rule enforced on platforms, not on individual #children — and it's actually enforceable.
#Restriction works. #Prohibition just pushes the risk somewhere you can't see it.
Just how far into a juvenile crimewave does urban England need to descend before "society" reconsiders whether teens should be allowed social media access?
#socialmedia #teenagers #ban
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