Josh Dean

Josh Dean

Labour — Hertford and Stortford

Speaking in the House of Commons on 2 November 2026

Debate

Social Media: Ban for Under-16s

Contribution

We agree on the cause; it is the methods that we have different views on. I recognise my hon. Friend’s point about the development of the brain, but should the onus not be on social media companies to clean up their act across the piece, so that every 16-year-old accessing social media, and indeed everyone over 16, is free from the harms currently found there? Should the aim not be to make sure that the harms are gone, not that the under-16s are gone?

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