Petition

End the banning of social media for minors and use of ID age verification

Rejected 17 signatures

What the petition asks

A complete ban is impractical and has many negative fall off effects such as lack of engagement within communities which can help build a child's social life. I want ALL discussions for this ban to be discontinued and for alternative solutions that don't risk personal data to be discussed
I agree that cyber bullying is very problematic, however banning social media is not an appropriate way to go about this. Considering the modern world and the future ahead, banning social media for minors can heavily restrict their ability to communicate with different forms of people and cultures, lessening their ability to learn. As well as this, the age verification systems that store IDs have no guaranteed safety for those who aren't minors. For the safety of your own future, please sign.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

The following petitions have similar requests:

Do not ban social media for under 16s
Do not ban social media for under 16s

Ban digital age verification
Ban digital age verification

Timeline

11 Jun 2026 Petition opened for signatures
7 Jul 2026 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 17
Status Rejected
Rejected 7 Jul 2026

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 11 Aug 2026.