Australia's social media ban shows UK child safety measures are bound to fail — and it's not because of…

Banning all children from social media apps has been this week’s headline-grabbing, simple fix to an online world growing more hostile by the day. Too bad that it may not work, after all.

Not only is a blanket social media ban incredibly difficult to enforce from a technical standpoint, in fact, but the fallout will hit everyone where it hurts the most: our digital privacy, ultimately perhaps even taking down VPNs in the process.

Children and teens living in Australia were the first in the world to take an enforced break from their Snapchat, Instagram, and TikTok lives — a break that law now states must last until they turn 16. That's the theory, at least, but reality tells a very different story.

In March, Australia’s body tasked with overseeing the young person social media ban's implementation, theeSafety Commissioner, found that around seven in 10 under-16s still have an...

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