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Why the social media ban is about so much more than social media
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- Zoe Kleinman Technology and AI editor BBC"Everyone's really upset mum - loads of them have got their own You Tube channels."
- That was my 12-year-old son's summary of how the news about the social media ban for UK under-16s went down in his classroom.
- Exactly how a bunch of 12-year olds might have ended up with their own channels in the first place when the minimum age is supposed to be 13 shows just how big a change in culture the government is trying to make.
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Zoe Kleinman Technology and AI editor BBC"Everyone's really upset mum - loads of them have got their own You Tube channels."
That was my 12-year-old son's summary of how the news about the social media ban for UK under-16s went down in his classroom.
Exactly how a bunch of 12-year olds might have ended up with their own channels in the first place when the minimum age is supposed to be 13 shows just how big a change in culture the government is trying to make.
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