{"id":2016,"date":"2026-06-15T07:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T07:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2016"},"modified":"2026-06-15T07:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T07:37:12","slug":"britain-to-ban-under-16s-from-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2016","title":{"rendered":"Britain to ban under 16s from social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Summary<\/li>\n<li>Companies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>LONDON, June 15 (Reuters) &#8211; British Prime Minister \u200bKeir Starmer said he would ban social media sites for the under-16s and \u200cimpose restrictions on gaming and livestreaming platforms, in some of the most far-reaching online restrictions to date globally.<\/div>\n<div>Starmer said on Monday he would introduce sweeping changes to social media regulation to better protect the wellbeing of children \u200bwhen they are online.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;It is clear to me a full ban is the right \u200bchoice,&#8221; he said, adding that while it would not be easy, the government \u2060had agency in pushing back against the power of big technology companies.<\/div>\n<div>Britain has increasingly toughened its \u200bapproach to tech companies in recent years, urging or forcing them to impose age verification, adapt their \u200balgorithms and, most recently, prevent children from circulating nude images taken on mobile phones.<\/div>\n<div>But with a growing awareness of the mental health risks posed by children spending too much time online, Starmer has decided to go further \u200bafter speaking to parents and considering evidence from Australia, which brought in a ban for \u200bunder 16s last year.<\/div>\n<div>Starmer, who is likely to face a leadership challenge in the coming weeks, said people rightly expected \u200caction.<\/div>\n<h2>AUSTRALIA \u2060LEADS THE WAY<\/h2>\n<div>Australia was the first country to ban social media for children under 16, blocking them in December from platforms including TikTok, Alphabet&#8217;s (GOOGL.O)<svg><\/svg><span>, opens new tab<\/span> YouTube and Meta&#8217;s (META.O)<svg><\/svg><span>, opens new tab<\/span> Instagram and Facebook.<\/div>\n<div>Since then a raft of countries have said they are looking to regulate access to social media amid mounting concerns \u200bover the impact on children&#8217;s \u200bhealth and safety.<\/div>\n<div>Britain \u2060has consulted teachers, parents and young people on new restrictions, including a possible ban for under-16s, as well as curfews, app time limits and \u200bcurbs on what the government has described as addictive design features.<\/div>\n<div>It received \u200bmore than \u2060116,000 responses from parents, industry and young people. More than 83% of parents who responded said risks from social media outweighed benefits, while 90% backed a minimum age of 16 to access social media \u2060platforms.<\/div>\n<div>While many \u200bparents and politicians back a ban, some psychologists and \u200bresearchers have said there is no proof that it would work, and a group of school children in London told \u200bReuters they had a conflicted relationship with the technology.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2014\">Stepson of Norway\u2019s crown prince convicted of rape, sentenced to 4 years in prison<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2011\">African migrants with deep roots in South Africa flee xenophobic attacks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2008\">Ukraine\u2019s Zelenskiy discusses peace talks in call with Trump<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Prime Minister \u200bKeir Starmer said he would ban social media sites for the under-16s and \u200cimpose restrictions on gaming and livestreaming platforms, in some of the most far-reaching online restrictions to date globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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