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Chiara Castro

Australia's social media ban shows UK child safety measures are bound to fail — and it's not because of VPNs

A teenage girl and a teenage boy look at an iPhone smartphone screen on a beach as the sun sets + TechRadar's Leave No Trace logo on the upper left.

Banning all children from social media apps has been this week’s headline-grabbing, simple fix to an online world growing more hostile by the day. Too bad that it may not work, after all.

Not only is a blanket social media ban incredibly difficult to enforce from a technical standpoint, in fact, but the fallout will hit everyone where it hurts the most: our digital privacy, ultimately perhaps even taking down VPNs in the process.

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