Adrian Weckler

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

Because it's a commercial interest, because it's a major industrial interest.

Now,

I happen not really to fully believe that.

You will talk to people who will say, well, of course they're not going to do anything because, you know, Meta and Google and TikTok employ so many people there.

I don't really believe that.

It is true to say that Ireland has never been one of the more hawkish countries in banning things and banning social media in Europe.

There are other countries that have gone out ahead of us.

I would say we're also not in the first wave.

I mean, the Brits are clearly now have entered the first wave of it.

But to me, that smacks a little bit like desperation.

And it also lets the tech companies off the hook, in my opinion.

I think the Brits know, Keir Starmer knows that a social media ban doesn't really annoy the tech companies because the Brits are really trying to get the tech companies in.

I think they know that that doesn't annoy the tech companies.

I think that what annoys the tech companies is what the European Commission is doing.

And sometimes you hear this metaphor used, I just want to bring this point up, because you will hear this analogy used of social media being like tobacco or alcohol.

Yeah, the smoking analogy, yeah.

Yeah, the smoking analogy.

And that analogy is...

intended as a slam dunk argument as to why social media should be banned.

And in fact, it has the opposite effect.

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