"would "require all regulated user-to-user services to use highly-effective age assurance measures to prevent children under the age of 16 from becoming or being users.""
""The onus must be placed on technology platforms, not parents, to prevent underage access,""
""The evidence is not emerging, it has arrived. We are not waiting to see if harm will occur, we are watching it unfold every day.""
Sixty-one Labour backbench MPs published an open letter supporting an Australia-style ban on social media use by under-16s, calling for platforms to prevent underage access and noting strong public support. The government could enable a ban by backing an opposition amendment in the House of Lords. The proposed amendment would require regulated user-to-user services to use highly effective age-assurance measures to prevent under-16s from being users and would ask the UK's four chief medical officers to publish age-specific advice on children's social media use. The amendment has crossbench and Liberal Democrat sponsors, and some Conservative leaders support related restrictions, including banning smartphones in schools.
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