{"id":84455,"date":"2026-06-15T05:28:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84455"},"modified":"2026-06-15T08:36:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T12:36:35","slug":"under-16s-to-be-banned-from-social-media-uk-prime-minister-keir-starmer-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84455","title":{"rendered":"Under-16s to Be Banned From Social Media, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced plans for a social media ban for under-16s. Starmer said the government hopes to pass regulation before Christmas, with the ban coming into effect by spring 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The affected platforms include TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter \/ X, Snapchat, and Instagram, but not messaging services like WhatsApp or Signal. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A full ban is the right choice&#8230; I am not prepared to compromise on the safety and happiness of our children,&#8221; Starmer told the nation in a televised statement.<\/p>\n<p>The government also plans to block livestreaming for under-16s, including on gaming platforms, which suggests Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft may need to adjust their console policies in the UK. Similarly, the likes of Twitch would theoretically need to adjust policy to ensure compliance, although Starmer&#8217;s announcement is vague as it relates to video games. Is Discord included in all this? Is Roblox? And how would a ban even work? It&#8217;s unclear.<\/p>\n<p>The UK social media ban follows a similar ban in Australia, which came into effect in December last year. The policy appears to be spreading globally, with Portugal and Spain potentially bringing in a ban next year. Denmark has set the age of 15 as the bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced plans for a social media ban for under-16s. Starmer said the government hopes to pass regulation before Christmas, with the ban coming into effect by spring 2027. The affected platforms include TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter \/ X, Snapchat, and Instagram, but not messaging services like WhatsApp or Signal&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":84457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84455"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84459,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84455\/revisions\/84459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}