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Britain will ban under-16s from social media apps, including TikTok and YouTube
npr ^ | 06/15/2026 | npr

Posted on 06/15/2026 7:48:16 AM PDT by BenLurkin

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1 posted on 06/15/2026 7:48:16 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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I read elsewhere that Bluesky (the deep-state controlled liberal answer to X/Twitter) was exempted.


2 posted on 06/15/2026 7:51:18 AM PDT by PGR88
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It is a scan to control adults. If they cared about “the children,” they would block the barbarians in boats from arriving.


3 posted on 06/15/2026 7:52:44 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12- 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: BenLurkin

This is ONLY to get the kids submit to Allah.


4 posted on 06/15/2026 7:54:14 AM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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The companies would be better off shutting down service in the UK, and tell those trying to access why.

Are there legitimate concerns? Yes. Does it justify an end around to force a type of digital ID? No.

5 posted on 06/15/2026 7:55:37 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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They’re using this as a wedge to get personal info on every social media account. What they really want is to track down so called “hate speech.”


6 posted on 06/15/2026 7:56:18 AM PDT by LuxAerterna
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I wonder if Starmer will form neighborhood informer groups. You know, folks paid to make sure that the neighborhood kids weren’t going around the ban.

Informer groups were effective for the Stasi in fascist East Germany. So they should work in fascist Britain.

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7 posted on 06/15/2026 7:56:22 AM PDT by Leaning Right
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When these 16 year olds get the power they will go after the seniors that did this to them ,LOL


8 posted on 06/15/2026 7:57:58 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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Can’t wait to hear how this turns out. I’m betting the kids are smarter than Starmer.


9 posted on 06/15/2026 7:58:59 AM PDT by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: BenLurkin

plus Starmer is completely out of his mind if he even has one to start with


10 posted on 06/15/2026 7:59:31 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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The world got along fine without tik tok and all the rest of it, we can go back to a time without social media and the world won’t stop.


11 posted on 06/15/2026 8:00:45 AM PDT by The Louiswu (USA FIRST...USA FOREVER)
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Starmer says muslims are the face of the modern Britain, he nuts islam is still in the 13th century


12 posted on 06/15/2026 8:02:43 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: DugwayDuke

For every measure, there will be a countermeasure.

So will Starmer eventually give up on this stupid idea? I doubt it. More likely he’ll institute even more repressive laws.


13 posted on 06/15/2026 8:05:53 AM PDT by Leaning Right
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So... the Crown can’t now argue banning obscene content since children are no longer allowed on the sites.


14 posted on 06/15/2026 8:06:25 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: LuxAerterna; BenLurkin

(They’re using this as a wedge to get personal info on every social media account.)

(What they really want is to track down so called “hate speech.”)

Digital ID
Digital Currency
Digital Tracking
Geofencing

An electronic boot 🥾🥾
on your face

You Will Own Nothing
And Be Happy! ™️

Now Eat Zee Bugs! 🦟🐜🐝🐞🦗


15 posted on 06/15/2026 8:07:11 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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It only starts with those under 16 years of age.

I can see why the U.K. is confused over who the actual parents are since the government already provides such a large degree of financial support to so many families. They are probably just going by the adage “Our house! Our rules!”


16 posted on 06/15/2026 8:09:21 AM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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How does that figure?


17 posted on 06/15/2026 8:10:02 AM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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and acknowledged some teens would try to find their way around a ban.

No kidding. Kids got around the so-called "child-proof" filters the schools have on their computers - in about 5 minutes.

Either that, or adults will log on for them, just as they buy liquor for underage kids - high school kids used to tell me about it all the time.

18 posted on 06/15/2026 8:15:55 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: The Louiswu

Social media is a plague.


19 posted on 06/15/2026 8:39:26 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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“Social media is a plague.”

Or as Rush used to describe it: “...a sewer”


20 posted on 06/15/2026 8:45:12 AM PDT by VMI70 (My Goal in Life is to be the Kind of Person My Dog Thinks I Am)
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