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This curfew is essentially like placing, you know, a bottle of alcohol in front of a teenager,
but just sort of keeping it out of arm's reach.
It is a lot to ask a young 16-year-old, 17-year-old to not just go into their settings and change it.
What teenager is going to be able to resist that?
Parents feel like they're fighting a losing battle.
There is some hesitation about upsetting tech companies too much by coming in too hard with restrictions.
From The Guardian today in Focus, this is The Latest with me, Annie Kelly.
So the government's already announced a ban for social media for under-16s.
They've now announced this new social media curfew for slightly older kids, 16 and 17-year-olds.
Jessica Murray, you're The Guardian's social affairs correspondent.
How is this going to work and how is it different to the measures they've already announced?
Yeah, so what this is, is a voluntary curfew on social media apps,
which will mean from the hours of midnight to 6am, certain apps will be blocked for 16 and 17 year olds.
It'll also include features like, for instance, the most kind of addictive elements of social media.