{"id":63825,"date":"2026-06-09T10:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/white-house-urges-uk-not-to-ban-social-media-for-under-16s-2\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T10:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:12:12","slug":"white-house-urges-uk-not-to-ban-social-media-for-under-16s-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/white-house-urges-uk-not-to-ban-social-media-for-under-16s-2\/","title":{"rendered":"White House urges UK not to ban social media for under-16s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump administration says restrictions could impose \u2018disproportionate\u2019 burden on US tech companies<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2026\/jun\/09\/labour-badenoch-equality-duty-nowak-starmer-burnham-healey-lammy-latest-news-updates\">UK politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The White House has urged the UK not to impose a social media ban for under-16s, saying such restrictions could impose a \u201cdisproportionate\u201d burden on US tech firms.<\/p>\n<p>In a submission to a government consultation on online safety, the US government came out against \u201cprescribed one-size-fits-all government restrictions\u201d and \u201cblunt regulatory instruments\u201d to address online harms to children.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/jun\/09\/white-house-urges-uk-not-ban-social-media-under-16s\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump administration says restrictions could impose \u2018disproportionate\u2019 burden on US tech companies UK politics live \u2013 latest updates The White House has urged the UK not to impose a social media ban for under-16s, saying such restrictions could impose a \u201cdisproportionate\u201d burden on US tech firms. In a submission to a government consultation on online [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}