A version of the U16s ban is already being debated in the UK House of Lords as an amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill.
This goes beyond social media to include social functions of online games, WhatsApp and Wikipedia.
Shutting young people out of digital public spaces, rather than building ones that work for them is not protection. It is exclusion.
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Online harms are driven by platform design and business models. A blanket ban on young people doesn't fix this.
We need:
⚫ Interoperability to promote competition over standards.
⚫ Greater user control over feeds and content moderation.
⚫ Strong enforcement of data protection laws for children.
⚫ Limits on profiling and targeted advertising, and greater transparency around how user data is used on platforms.
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