Do you know how you create terrorists, kids who shoot up schools, and even revolutions (and not necessarily for the better either), and similar?
This:
"Under the UK's planned social media ban, more than 100,000 British teenagers aged 16 and 17 could initially be locked out of social media because they lack a passport or driving license that may be needed as a fallback for age verification.
'We should expect that motivated children will seek to bypass the restrictions -- just like alcohol laws can't completely eradicate underage drinking -- but there'll be ways for platforms to mitigate this risk,' said Dawes. 'This will be a huge cultural shift for our society, so it'll take time to adjust, and everyone will have a part to play.'"
When you back a dog into a corner it's going eventually bite you. The same thing happens to man kind. The age is largely irrelevant, but teens are probably not a good age group to test this with. Revolutions, and similar are more often than not a consensus of young people. The outcome of which is often not what was intended or hoped for by the participants either. In other words things can and do get worse. Your playing a very dangerous game. Helicopter parents, nanny states, and the like. At some point we're all going to suffer the consequences of these ill-thought out laws.
@matrix
I get it. Stupid as it may seem your probably unwisely cutting kids off from some of the only social interactions they get with other human beings and/or possibly people they like. It's obviously different for different people and it's probably not going to be any one thing that pushes the majority over the edge, but the number of suicides is going up and I have a hard time believing it's social media's fault (and not sure there is even any correlation there) as much as it is an increasing amount of helicopter parenting by actual parents, schools, and government more generally.