Submitted on Sunday 29th December 2024
Rejected on Wednesday 19th February 2025
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Introduce a legal minimum age for access to internet social media web sites.
Introduce a law which makes it illegal for young people under the age of 16 years to have unsupervised access to internet social media (or other harmful websites) using a smart phone or other smart device.
There is increasing evidence confirming that young people under the age of 16 are being exposed to harmful content on social media sites and are spending many hours of unsupervised access. The so called age restrictions on using these web sites do not seem to be working at all. There is also increasing evidence of significant negative impact on the well-being of young people who spend a lot of time on social media sites, impacting their behaviour, sleep patterns and education.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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You may wish to sign this petition which calls for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700086
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