For anyone wondering, it’s only been a positive thing in Aus. No one even talks about it anymore which can only mean the kids don’t care. The ones desperate for it will find workarounds, but the majority have found better things to do with their spare time.

🚨 SUMMARY: The UK's social media ban for children from early 2027: - "User-to-user" apps where people create, share and interact with content (e.g. TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, X, Facebook) will be banned for under-16s - WhatsApp, Signal and YouTube Kids will be exempt - Under-16s will also be banned from livestreaming, messaging strangers on gaming apps like Discord and using disappearing messages - 16 and 17 year olds will face nightly social media curfews and limits on infinite scrolling with more details next month - AI "romantic companion" chatbots will be banned for under-18s - Adults can still access social media through age checks like facial recognition, digital IDs, passports and credit cards

Two separate ‘A CHRISTMAS CAROL’ films are in the works. • Directed by Robert Eggers, starring Willem Dafoe • Directed by Ti West, starring Johnny Depp

you keep declaring restitutor orbis but the orbis keeps getting smaller every time it's restituted

alright, we're officially living in the future 🤯 this app that lets you relive your memories in VR is just *incredible*

going up to complete strangers and saying “you don’t remember me, do you?” is free btw

What are children actually supposed to do? Like they have nowhere to go but home, everywhere costs too much money and they have no experience socially navigating without social media. This just isolates abused, bullied and minority children.

To clear up any confusion: There are TWO bans on under 16's access to social media in the UK. The first is at the app level and this comes into play next year. It will require selected social media apps to prompt for age verification when accessing them. The second more insidious one is happening much sooner. This one is the 'nudity detection' feature and this one operates on device level. It will require every adult to show a form of ID in order to operate their phones and tablets without restrictions/monitoring. The voluntary deadlines to tech companies to implement this is around early September this year. If Apple, Google and others don’t implement device-level monitoring by then, the government has said it will bring forward legislation to make it mandatory. People saying "Just use a VPN!" are not understanding how this works.

French President Macron on social media ban under 15: It plunges them into loneliness. It makes them suffer. They are not ready for it. It disturbs their personal, sensory, cognitive development. Australia passed a law before us, already in force. The UK is joining us — the Prime Minister announced it this morning. Canada is joining.

Garfield by Jim Davis for Sun, 14 Jun 2026