UK consider social media ban for under 16 would you support?

[Anonymous]

Yes i will support...

[genericname85]

you know at this point of the highly digitalized world: what even counts as "social media"? like is any chat app also social media? because according to that logic, sms and mms was already social media. and what are you really trying to achieve with a ban.

i think "banning" is a poor socialization method. it's a poor method on a parental level and a poor method on a governmental level. i think educating and regulating should be the weapon of choice.

[Forceinhand]

What kind of ban are we speaking of? No Snapchat, tik tok etc? Then yes, all for it. Children are too immature and mentally undeveloped to have social media interfere and meddle in their cognitive progression. We already see abundant evidence of the dumbing down it results in.

[sawno]

No because that inevitably leads to a death of anonymity on the internet and a power grab. The EU is trying to force a similar power grab trough, and I don't want to be tied to an ID where the gov can read what I write and know its me. I am way to critical of how tyrannical the EU is for that to be a good idea. And the UK is also tyrannical so i'd run into similar problems if I was British.

[Levin]

I mean, we're trying to ban and criminalise everything here. Free speech chief among them. It's kind of ironic that we criticise other countries for their human rights abuses.

[Anonymous]

noooope. that's how it all starts. then you need to show id for more and more things, never for voting of course, but for everything else, until people get fed up with it enough to finally go along with the implanted computer chip idea... and we all know where things go from there. :o

[boggboss]

Nope its Pandora box it will end up requires passport or I'd to access sites which I wouldn't want to add

[NaultD]

No. The bullshit required to age verification anything on the internet is impossible.

[lightbulb27]

Yes, It's more hazardous than fentanyl.

Can we also ban stupid phones?

[gorydetails]

I don't generally agree with government interference in decisions parents should be making. However, social media is a cancer on society.

[Anonymous]

Yes. That would be awesome, but it would be even better if it was 18 years old.

[DarkLegacy]

Where did you read this, and no i would not.

[trellbrown84]

I support a total social media ban, as in banning all social media cor the good of humanity.

But then again I hate Humanity anyway, Id rather let it rot

[Crankor]

That would be very interesting to observe the result but it's impossible to enforce

[StirredNotShaken]

The UK are control freaks.