Monday Morning Moan - macho political posturing is not the way to tame Big Tech, as the UK sets out to prove with an ill-considered social media ban

This is a line in the sand. Tech giants had their chance and failed.

There’s a horrible sense of the inevitable about this morning’s ban on social media for UK teens. It’s been building up a head of steam for some time, and with last week’s series of ‘Look how tech-friendly a government we are’ speeches to accompany London Tech Week safely out of the way, it was time for a bit of Big Tech bashing.

So it is that the UK will, if the plans go through into law, be banning social media use by under-16s, forcing adults to use verification services to access platforms, and looking into how to force under-18 year olds into some kind of curfew system to cut down their use.

All of this pitched as a move to “give kids their childhood back!’.

Ah yes, that old hardy annual - will nobody think of...

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