{"id":21589,"date":"2026-01-15T16:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/more-than-100000-people-urge-mps-to-ban-social-media-for-under-16s-in-uk\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T16:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:37:16","slug":"more-than-100000-people-urge-mps-to-ban-social-media-for-under-16s-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/more-than-100000-people-urge-mps-to-ban-social-media-for-under-16s-in-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 100,000 people urge MPs to ban social media for under-16s in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Letters sent using campaign group\u2019s template as Keir Starmer indicates Australia-style move being considered<\/p>\n<p>MPs\u2019 inboxes have been flooded with letters calling for an Australia-style social media ban for under-16s, as the prime minister indicated such a move was being considered.<\/p>\n<p>More than 100,000 people have contacted their local MP since the grassroots organisation Smartphone Free Childhood launched an email campaign on Tuesday evening with a template calling for \u201creasonable, age-appropriate boundaries\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2026\/jan\/15\/people-urge-mps-ban-social-media-under-16s-uk-starmer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4661579d810daf905e5fcf614aabd0365cada9ae\/270_0_4560_3648\/master\/4560.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=af0a8941e780f20ed9406e5e51befdd3\" title=\"More than 100,000 people urge MPs to ban social media for under-16s in UK\" \/>Letters sent using campaign group\u2019s template as Keir Starmer indicates Australia-style move being considered<br \/>\nMPs\u2019 inboxes have been flooded with letters calling for an Australia-style social media ban for under-16s, as the prime minister indicated such a move was being considered.<br \/>\nMore than 100,000 people have contacted their local MP since the grassroots organisation Smartphone Free Childhood launched an email campaign on Tuesday evening with a template calling for \u201creasonable, age-appropriate boundaries\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letters sent using campaign group\u2019s template as Keir Starmer indicates Australia-style move being considered MPs\u2019 inboxes have been flooded with letters calling for an Australia-style social media ban for under-16s, as the prime minister indicated such a move was being considered. More than 100,000 people have contacted their local MP since the grassroots organisation Smartphone &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/more-than-100000-people-urge-mps-to-ban-social-media-for-under-16s-in-uk\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More than 100,000 people urge MPs to ban social media for under-16s in UK<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21589"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}