Taming social media - out with a whimper, not a ban, as the UK's tough talk on tech is watered down to an improbable curfew for 'da kidz'

Elsewhere on diginomica, Chris Middleton looked at how outgoing UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s legacies for his successor will be trying to make sense of rash digital ID plans set down by the current British Government. With Starmer set to vacate 10 Downing Street on Monday, along comes another legacy that will besmirch memory of his short time in office - the even more rash rush towards a ‘something must be done’ social media ban for the under-18s in the UK.

The idea for the ban was first announced at London Tech Week last month, and greeted with a combination of cynicism and disbelief about some of its more naive assumptions and assertions. More meat would be put on the bones at a later date, Downing Street assured us, for now just write about how tough Keir is being please.

Today the outgoing Starmer administration has doubled down on...

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