Most U.K. teens to opt out of planned social media curfew, poll finds
Most teenagers would opt out of a U.K. government plan to impose social media curfews between midnight and 6 a.m. on older teenagers, according to a poll.
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Most teenagers would opt out of a U.K. government plan to impose social media curfews between midnight and 6 a.m. on older teenagers, according to a poll.
The curfew would be enabled by default settings on accounts for children aged 16 and 17.
It started six years ago when Shaha Hashim began seeing posts across social media: Vulnerable and protected species were being fished throughout the atoll islands of the Maldives, and some...
Youngsters aged 16- and 17-years-old will face an automatic block from accessing platforms from midnight to 6am - but research shows they plan to switch the curfew off next spring
The research by Censuswide found 84.6% of 16 to 18-year-olds said they would opt out of the proposed curfews.