{"id":6711,"date":"2026-02-01T13:27:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T13:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=6711"},"modified":"2026-02-01T13:27:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T13:27:31","slug":"more-than-100000-people-urge-mps-to-ban-social-media-for-under-16s-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/02\/01\/more-than-100000-people-urge-mps-to-ban-social-media-for-under-16s-in-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 100,000 people urge MPs to ban social media for under-16s in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A significant majority of the UK public is urging the government to ban social media for children under 16 to protect their mental health and safety. Prime Minister Keir Starmer indicated that &#8220;all options are on the table,&#8221; marking a shift from his previous skepticism regarding the enforceability of such a ban. Supporters of the move, including major teaching unions, argue that children need stronger protections from global platforms designed to maximize screen time and profit. Conversely, some youth mental health charities caution that a ban may penalize children for the failures of tech firms and could push online activity toward less regulated spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> January 15, 2026. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2026\/jan\/15\/people-urge-mps-ban-social-media-under-16s-uk-starmer\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A significant majority of the UK public is urging the government to ban social media for children under 16 to protect their mental health and safety. Prime Minister Keir Starmer indicated that &#8220;all options are on the table,&#8221; marking a shift from his previous skepticism regarding the enforceability of such a ban. Supporters of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":6723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unregulated-digitalization-of-political-arena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6711"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6767,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711\/revisions\/6767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}