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UK to ban under-16s from ‘high risk’ social media apps

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UK to ban under-16s from ‘high risk’ social media apps

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Measures to include restrictions on ‘safe’ social media apps, with some fearing banning some platforms and not others will lead to legal challenges

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If its bad for kids, its bad for adults too. Age restrictions don’t address the emotional manipulation systems at hand with corporate social media, and societal well being is obviously not what the state is concerned with anyway.

The removal of online privacy is the only goal.

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