Adrian Weckler

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

The majority of kids are using social media apps.

Its last survey showed that 71%

of eight to 12 year olds were using social media apps like Instagram or TikTok, which have a legal age or a user age of 13.

And it hasn't changed much over the years.

This is what I'm getting to.

We actually have a regulator called Commission de Man, the media regulator, and its job is to enforce the rule that under-13s cannot access social media.

Now, it has had an online safety code in place for 11 months, more than 11 months, but the enforcement stage has been in place for 11 months.

And the enforcement stage is where Commission de Man goes in

and holds tech companies to account for not preventing under 13 year olds to use social media.

Now I checked this week,

No prosecutions.

There's no announcements of any action against social media companies.

Even though we know for a fact, because I checked with CyberSafe Kids again, that the figures, they're redoing their survey, the figures essentially haven't changed.

So two thirds of kids between the ages of 8 and 12, and by the way, when you get to 12, it's like something like 75, 80 percent, are using...

social media platforms with a minimum age of 13, we actually have a de facto law, a ban on that in Ireland.

And in 11 months of enforcement, the regulator that it's appointed to do it has not initiated any enforcement.

In other words, the ban does not work.

There are no fewer kids using social media, despite the fact that not only do we have a ban on it, but we also set up

amid great fanfare, a regulator to enforce that law with an online safety commissioner, an online safety code, and pretty much nothing has been done.

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