UK proposes midnight social media curfew for teens 16-17, limits infinite scrolling

Potential impact on adolescent sleep patterns and mental health outcomes, though direct casualties or displacement not reported.

Britain is attempting something quietly radical: rather than asking families to police their children's screens, it proposes to write restraint into the architecture of the platforms themselves. A default midnight curfew and limits on infinite scrolling for 16- and 17-year-olds reflect a growing conviction among regulators that adolescent wellbeing cannot be left to individual willpower when the products themselves are engineered for compulsion. The measure is framed as voluntary, yet its power lies in the philosophy of defaults — the quiet assumption that most people will accept the world as

UK proposes midnight social media curfew for teens 16-17, limits infinite scrolling

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