Under-16 social media ban announced by UK government

The UK is the latest state to travel Australia successful implementing a full societal media prohibition for children nether 16, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced. The ban, which could instrumentality effect from aboriginal adjacent year, volition beryllium joined by wider measures that volition besides forestall children from talking to strangers successful online games, livestreaming, oregon utilizing intersexual oregon romanticist chatbots.

"Do we genuinely judge that societal media creates a blessed situation for our children? Do we genuinely judge that it's a spot wherever they tin consciousness safe?" Starmer asked during a property conference announcing the policy. "I don't deliberation I adjacent request to reply those questions, bash I?"

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