Rejected petition: Don't add a curfew for under 18s
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I believe the curfew is a nonsense idea. Curfews should be made by parents, same with the under 16s ban. There are parental controls for media and devices for a reason, there's no need for the government to go this far. The government have more important things to control and limit.
The limited things should be items like: vapes, drugs, alcohol, marijuana.
Curfews and media limits should be up to the family and parents.
I believe that the government should instead make two different PSA videos and such about "Limiting Social Media Use" and "Curfews for Bedtime" rather than completely banning the apps and devices.
Please remember, it's not all parents asking for this ban. Apps like Discord, YouTube & streaming services are connections to the outside world & relied on.
Why was this petition rejected?
There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
You may wish to sign this petition, which calls for similar action: "Do not introduce social media curfew for 16 & 17 year olds" https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/772675
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