Rejected petition Make joining up to any form of social media illegal for anyone under 18

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

At the moment, age policies are the responsibility of social media sites.

If you would like Parliament to change the law, to make it illegal to offer social media accounts to children under 18, then you could start a petition asking for that. Or you could sign the following petition which asks for the law to be changed to make it illegal to offer social media accounts to children under 16:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/191487

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

• Date submitted 1 April 2017
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