Social media ban won’t just affect under-16s

Dr Eric Crampton
Newsroom
7 October, 2025

Keeping kids off social media sounds simple. Tech whizzes can achieve wonders. Surely, they can achieve this too. All they need to do is ‘nerd harder’.

I don’t think this one can be solved this way. Or at least not without pretty substantial trade-offs for freedom of speech and privacy.

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