Nandy says children’s social media ban only ‘staging post’ in online safety drive
THE SO WHAT
Treat the UK’s under-16 social media ban as the opening move in a broader shift toward hard age-gating, identity checks, and duty-of-care obligations for platforms. If you operate any consumer product touching minors’ data or attention, start designing for stricter verification, logging, and content controls now — retrofitting after regulation lands will be expensive.
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