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The ban DOES NOT WORK and we have the receipts now. Six months in: the regulator's own review says a majority of under-16s still have accounts. Kids beat the face-estimation checks with their older brother's phone or literally a printed mask. The government's response is to open investigations into Meta and TikTok — which tells you enforcement failed and they know it. Read the actual review before calling this a success.
— dmitri_checks
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And yet — I teach 8th grade, and something did shift this year (we're piloting the same age rules my district imported from the Australian playbook). The group chat drama that used to detonate at 11pm and land in my first period... it's quieter. Not gone. Quieter. Even a leaky ban changes the default from "everyone's on it so you must be" to "officially you're not supposed to be." Defaults do work on 13-year-olds.
— ms.harmon
Enforcement gaps aren't the same as policy failure — drink-driving laws are broken every single night and still cut road deaths dramatically. The same review you're citing also reports average daily use among under-16s fell, and that's with the leakiest possible v1 of age assurance. The right comparison isn't "ban vs perfect compliance," it's "ban vs the status quo."
— whitney.reads
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