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UK to ban social media for kids under 16, may impose overnight curfews

Critics say bans push kids to riskier alternatives and can be beaten with VPNs.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/uk-to-ban-social-media-for-kids-under-16-may-impose-overnight-curfews/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Ed Jun 16

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@arstechnica We need to do something but this doesn't seem workable. And what about the adults? It shouldn't be legal to run an unsafe social platform for anyone. Make some rules around what's safe and what isn't and enforce them. Obviously exclude small sites under a certain number of users (100k or so).