[sashank_1509]

Can this be realistically enforced without parents help?

[ben_w]

From the polling I've seen, a majority (90%!) of parents are amongst those who called for this ban: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/britain-expec...

This means much more support for the ban by parents than by non-parents, as the full population average is about 75% support.

[win2k]

I wish those parents would just setup controls on their kids' smartphones and block social media apps for them instead of forcing everyone else to give their ID.

[ben_w]

When I was a kid, a common refrain was adults couldn't figure out how to stop VCRs flashing 12:00.

While the details changed, this rhymes with more recent research: https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/skills-matter_1f029d8f-...

Would be nice if everyone was competent at everything, but we have to specialise, and that means a lot of people simply don't have time to re-learn how to do that every time Apple, Google, and Microsoft change their UIs. Same deal as https://xkcd.com/2501/

Me, I had to turn on parental controls… to stop my parents from accidentally removing apps from the dock.

[designerarvid]

Conveniently, this will force the government to authenticate all users of social media to ensure they are over 16.