Britain will ban under-16s from social media apps, including TikTok and YouTube
npr.orgBanned from creating accounts? Or banned from viewing altogether?
>Esther Ghey, whose 16-year-old daughter Brianna was killed in 2023 by two teenagers who had accessed harmful content online, said the ban would "potentially save so many children's lives,"
The lack of specifics here presumably implies that most reasonable people would disagree with this conclusion? (Betteridge's law)
> Banned from creating accounts? Or banned from viewing altogether?
The first sentence: "Britain will ban children under 16 from using a range of social..."
Emphasis on "using".
From the eighth sentence:
"The U.K. plans to follow the same model for a social media ban as Australia, which last year became the first country to bar under-16s from holding social media accounts."
...what counts as "using"? Is viewing a YouTube video considered "using"?