Adrian Weckler

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

And the reason it has the opposite effect is it presents social media like alcohol and tobacco as inevitable vices of the world.

That will be there forever.

That's a good point.

And, you know, cannot be changed.

But what we can do is just stop kids using them.

And it is the ultimate let off.

for tech companies.

It's the ultimate let off for social media companies.

If I'm a lobbyist or a strategist in meta, in Facebook or Instagram or TikTok, I'm thinking, please keep comparing it to alcohol and tobacco because then you'll just pass a simple law, populist law, banning it and you won't touch the rest of it.

Yeah, and it just, it gets rid of the moral responsibility to do something more.

Because when you talk about kids, I mean...

social media misuse and overuse and misinformation and extreme content and all that.

That's, you know, it's as bad for adults as it is for kids.

Yeah.

And the fact that you have very limited control over that algorithm is something that the tech companies are happy about.

European Commission wants to change.

And the UK government and maybe the Irish government as well, I don't know, think, oh, well, you know, that's tech stuff that we don't want to get involved.

That's inevitable.

That's just like human nature.

We can't really touch that, but we can ban it for kids.

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