There's no way to ban under 16s without age verifying everyone, which means ID checks or face scans to log on for every adult in the country.
Thats the actual prize here, ID locking the whole internet and ending anonymity, and "for the children" is just the trojan horse to sell it.
Parents can already keep their kids off social media, they dont need a surveillance state to do it for them.
We are banning social media access for under 16s.
These days kids must find their feet in a world where technology intrudes into every area of their life.
I just can’t let that go on anymore. So we’re giving children their childhoods back.