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Most UK teens to opt out of planned social media curfew: poll
['The Frontier Post']
The Frontier Post
LONDON (AFP) : Most teenagers would opt out of a UK government plan to impose social media curfews on older teenagers, according to a poll published Friday.
Plans to introduce an overnight social media curfew for children aged 16 and 17 were unveiled by the UK government in mid-July under Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s predecessor, Keir Starmer.
The curfew would supplement a social media ban on under-16s announced by Starmer in June, covering sites including Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook.
The time restriction would be enabled by default settings on social media accounts for children aged 16 and 17, preventing them from accessing social media sites between midnight and 6:00 am.
Over 18 percent of them said they consumed social media content until 1:00 am or later.