Rejected petition Change the social media ban for under 13s instead of 16s

You are thinking of banning social media for under 16s, I think you should change it to under 13s. I have had many people across social media complaining about this aswell, some children use social media to escape the reality, some use it to study/revise

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It will help childrens mental health, it will help them study with educational videos, when we have homework at school we would be able to watch YouTube videos to help us.

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Government ban on social media to be for under 13s only
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/757849

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Date submitted 19 February 2026
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