UK to ban Social Media for under 16s .. will we/EU follow suit? Is it enough?

All about control , they allow horrible horrible things to happen to women and children everyday but a social media ban is of upmost importance.

It's so the soon to vote youth don't actually see what's happening in the world and around them.

https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/05/04/children-are-drawing-moustaches-on-their-faces-to-fool-online-age-checks-and-its-working

I agree wholeheartedly that something needs to be done, but ignoring it for years and then sticking a plaster over it quickly is not the way at all.

It needs plenty of discussion, research and lots of development so that it is implemented correctly. Parents cannot be allowed to ignore their part in it either.

I feel horrible for the parents that have had children that are badly affected by their online activity, but they are one of the players in this problem too, one of the main players. It is difficult, if not impossible for them to monitor their childrens online activity all of the time, but if they made a good effort they could help curb much of it.

Without proper research and discussion it is a nothing effort.

any ban won't help children and certainly not the children that really need the help.

The only ones who might be helped are ones with parents who will track their activity but they were probably already restricting their access so don't need legislation to hep them. The parents who let the TV and computer raise their children will still allow this to happen and won't make the effort to make sure their kid aren't using other methods to get around the ban, those are the ones who need the help the most.

Fact is the government can't do a better job parenting kids than their parents can and if their parents aren't willing to do the job properly then the government won't be able to fix this.

There are groups and movements that are being largely ignored by the governments, the same as a kid drawing a moustache is being largely ignored by Meta and the others.

Two that I can think of are EDRI and STOKITI

They are not the only ones, and imho they are already doing a far better job than any of the elected governments.

@ancapailldorcha you are right in saying that much of it is conspiracy talk, but it is such a delicate territory and incredibly profitable, that much of the talk could be true, but can't be spoken about as it paints tinfoil hats on people. Reluctantly, I am bringing up Israel and the US, as they are in charge of most of the tech that does the damage, and I think that (almost) any conspiracy theory involving either of those probably isn't a million miles away from the truth. There are loads of examples.

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Makes sense to me?

"Mistakes have been made in the past but going forward lessons have been learned."

Take your own advice.

Chap get a grip 😂I state facts that we're all over the news and I'm a conspiracy theorist 😂 get your head out of the sand it's all about control.

So the Muslim grooming gangs being allowed to happen is a conspiracy theory , chap 😂 I'm not replying to you anymore , wake up and take your head out of the sand , it's all about control and you will see sooner rather than later with that attitude for sure

It really is though. People love a good conspiracy to make things easier to digest.

I don't have to show you proof of what was all over the news for months and still talked about to this day , if you're just uneducated and don't listen to any news then it's cool I understand you're unaware of these horrible horrible incidents.

Let's indeed call it there as what I'm stating is pure proven facts and you're calling me what you are , you are wrong but I'm sure you'll agree with that 😂 madness tbh how some are so unaware of what actually goes on in this world these days .

Reply if you wish but your talking pure sheet and I have facts on my side so...

The British government and its departments are still using X. The idea that they want to ban it by itself makes no sense.