Adrian Weckler

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The Big Tech Show · The uncomfortable truth about banning under 16s from social media · 18 Jun 2026 podcast

But but that's a much more difficult problem.

And politicians like easy problems.

Keir Starmer is under a lot of pressure politically in the UK.

So what he has announced is something there's nothing about trying to tackle the content

on social media companies.

Nothing about getting under the hood, but the algorithms, the things that the social media companies really, really fear.

And I know this because I talk to them and if you look at the amount of money they spend on lobbying in Europe and in the States, what they really, really, really fear is authorities ordering them to change the

the structure and the algorithms and the recommender systems and to start to get them to do that.

They don't fear a ban at all.

In fact, in some ways, a ban helps them.

I'll give you the example of YouTube.

So YouTube, weirdly, is one of the services that is on the UK social media ban list for under 16s.

Now, it has said that it will exempt YouTube kids.

So now we have a scenario where if you are a parent in Ireland or probably the UK, I don't know, but certainly in Ireland.

there is a greater than average chance that in your living room, YouTube is on the telly.

So YouTube is mostly now a TV app, particularly in family homes.

And it's quite normal for kids, young kids especially, to watch things on YouTube.

But now...

you're going to have a situation where that pattern isn't going to change.

There's still going to be kids watching YouTube, but they're probably not going to have their own accounts.

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