{"id":25188,"date":"2026-09-30T07:37:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T05:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/nandy-says-childrens-social-media-ban-only-staging-post-in-online-safety-drive\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T07:37:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T05:37:22","slug":"nandy-says-childrens-social-media-ban-only-staging-post-in-online-safety-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/nandy-says-childrens-social-media-ban-only-staging-post-in-online-safety-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Nandy says children\u2019s social media ban only \u2018staging post\u2019 in online safety drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Culture secretary says UK will crack down further and be \u2018pioneer of tech as a force for good\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Nandy has warned technology firms that the government\u2019s online safety crackdown is not finished, saying that banning under-16s from social media platforms is only a \u201cstaging post\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year the government announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/jun\/12\/uk-to-ban-under-16s-from-high-risk-social-media-apps\">teenagers under the age of 16 would be banned<\/a> from accessing \u201chigh-risk\u201d social media apps, while safer platforms would be subjected to restrictions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/sep\/30\/lisa-nandy-social-media-ban-online-safety-culture-secretary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/338e8d7f2d5c2f555c1569167e5c827d7a7e8edc\/119_0_1732_1384\/master\/1732.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1ea98a6a3c2e71c49660db187ef5c8c3\" title=\"Nandy says children\u2019s social media ban only \u2018staging post\u2019 in online safety drive\" \/>Exclusive: Culture secretary says UK will crack down further and be \u2018pioneer of tech as a force for good\u2019<br \/>\nLisa Nandy has warned technology firms that the government\u2019s online safety crackdown is not finished, saying that banning under-16s from social media platforms is only a \u201cstaging post\u201d.<br \/>\nEarlier this year the government announced that teenagers under the age of 16 would be banned from accessing \u201chigh-risk\u201d social media apps, while safer platforms would be subjected to restrictions. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Culture secretary says UK will crack down further and be \u2018pioneer of tech as a force for good\u2019 Lisa Nandy has warned technology firms that the government\u2019s online safety crackdown is not finished, saying that banning under-16s from social media platforms is only a \u201cstaging post\u201d. Earlier this year the government announced that teenagers &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/nandy-says-childrens-social-media-ban-only-staging-post-in-online-safety-drive\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nandy says children\u2019s social media ban only \u2018staging post\u2019 in online safety drive<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25189,"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\/25188"}],"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=25188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}