The Social Media Ban: "Let's tick all the boxes to annoy them"
This piece first appeared on AI & Tech Decoded, my Substack newsletter, on 9 July 2026.
A child under sixteen who opened the Growing Up in the Online World’s young person’s survey on her own would get no further than the first screen.
The government built this survey to hear from young people directly. This piece is about that instrument: how it was designed, what it asked, the answers it could receive.