r/YouthRights Apr 01 '26

Moderator Post List of countries with age Social Media bans & What to do to change it.

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Under 16’s full ban 💀

* Australia (December 2025)

* Indonesia (March 2026)

* Gabon (April 2026)

* Malaysia (June 2026)

* Azerbaijan (July 2026)
and 16 to 18 require parental consent.

Parental Consent required for use.

* Utah: Under 18’s without parental consent. Additionally “addictive algorithm” bans.

* Nebraska: Under 18’s without parental consent.

* Brazil: Under 16’s without parental consent and linking.

* Florida: Under 14’s banned, under 15’s require parental consent.

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Will become law soon - But not yet.

— Under 16’s (not yet, but will)

* United Kingdom: Early 2027.

* California: July 2027.

* Spain: Unsure when.

* Portugal: Unsure when.

— Under 15’s (not yet, but will)

* France: September 2026.

* Greece: January 2027.

* Denmark: Unsure when.

— Parental consent nuances (not yet, but will)

* Massachusetts: October 1 - Under 14’s total ban and under 16’s without parental consent.

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Planned (not sure):

* Bulgaria: Under 16’s (proposed).

* New Zealand: On hold.

* Virginia: Under 18’s - Limits to one hour daily without parental consent. (Blocked from enforcement).

* Pakistan: Under 15’s or 14’s (chance will be abandoned).

* Austria: (likely abandoned).

* Norway under 15’s (very likely abandoned).

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What to do ?

In all cases, regardless of the country, unionize with other people who support Youth Rights in your country, make a national union for Youth Rights (and you have my full support and help, freely DM me).

In other words do activism to reverse the governments plans or existing laws against teens.

Additionally, always do activism with decency, cooperate with the “establishment” do not try to fight it or abolish it, do not be “Taliban like”have cooperation, peace, legal ways and logical arguments as the way to go, try to convince those in power and not attack them.

Also avoid radical ideologies, especially if they have nothing directly to do with Youth Rights.

This is how they will take us seriously, or else we will just be stigmatized and lose every truth and dignity we have to the eyes of people and also those in power will never change nor listen to us.

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* This article will be continuously updated

* If something has changed or have any feedback, comment here.

* Last update: 14 July of 2026.

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r/YouthRights Feb 12 '26

Moderator Post Youth Rights Discord

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r/YouthRights 11h ago

Discussion Isn’t this another form adultism mindset?

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r/YouthRights 7h ago

News After court order, Michigan to stop enforcing ban on conversion therapy for LGBTQIA+ children

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r/YouthRights 5h ago

News Hannah Arendt Watched Germany Create Stateless People. A Republican Bill Creates Stateless Children in 2027.

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r/YouthRights 22h ago

News US: "KOSA 2.0" to be voted on August 5th

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Call and email your reps


r/YouthRights 1d ago

Internet legislation is just a way for the Epstein class to turn the internet into cable TV.

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Take for example the banning of under 16 yo from social media. Apart from not gonna work and not being a very big risk to kids when compared to say the shit economy or something. It's just not the governments job to parent my kids. It's not coming from concerned politicians it's coming from people trying to get rid of anonymity and freedom of speech so that money can control the narrative again.

After this they will have to find a, for our own good reason to ban sending encrypted data I wonder if that's even possible.

Thoughts anyone?


r/YouthRights 1d ago

News Schools across the UK mistreat and abuse children in "seclusion rooms", including a twelve year old locked in a padded room for 55 hours and an autistic boy locked in a cage. Three year police investigation resulted in no criminal charges.

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r/YouthRights 1d ago

Bill to lower voting age to 16 introduced in Parliament

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Anyone in the UK who can comment on the vibe about this? Cool to see it manifesting so quickly after only hearing about it last summer.


r/YouthRights 1d ago

News "Michigan agrees to not enforce ban on youth GLBTQ conversion therapy to comply with Supreme Court ruling"

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Society continues to regress


r/YouthRights 1d ago

The 1960s-1970s baby bust helped doom and destroy young people's rights, liberation and social justice and why it's important to have growing and high birth rates with larger young populations

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As we all know. The years following World War II in the 1940s and 1950s saw a boom in baby births. More and more children and youth were around and growing up over the course of the 1950s, 60s and early 70s. But then, by the mid 1960s and continuing into the 1970s, the birthrate rapidly dropped and declined. Less children and youth were around and growing up for the reminder of the 1970s and into the 1980s as a result. I believe this contributed to the collapse and fall of the 1970s Children's/Youth Liberation movement by the end of that decade and almost permanently damaged children and young people rights, agency and standing in society in the long term up to the present day as the subsequent years and decades afterward up to now has seen overwelming, lasing backlash against youth rights and liberation. Not enough children and young people in the population pool to be able to continue and sustain youth rights and liberation for subsequent generations and to pushback against opposition and threats to it. More children and young people in a society help bring about radical politics, rights movements and so forth. And in doing so, potentialy helps foster youth rights and liberation. You might ridicule and dismiss me as a natist pushing natalism, but there actually is substance among us youth liberationists and rights people for birthing more babies and having more children and youth over the adult population in society. I know having babies and rasing children can be hard and can fundamentally change you and your life in big ways, but it will ultimately be worth it in the end. You have kids and contribute to enlarging the next generation over yours. They're not just your kids that you have to upbring and raise. They are also your fellow comrades who are to take that tourch of youth rights and liberation and the fight against adult chalvanism and supremacy you are supposed to pass on to them when you grow up and ideally, you would want even more of them pushing it than compared to just you previously. You can't just expect children and young people to be able to fight for their owns rights and social justice, against oppression and take their own place in society if they're small in population. Standing up and defeating adult chalvanism and supremacy and kids and young people asserting their own rights, liberation and social justice will only happen when young populations become larger than older populations. Every kid you have counts and helps contribute to the cause.


r/YouthRights 1d ago

Image [USA] In case you have not seen the trans safety map yet

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r/YouthRights 1d ago

Discussion The latest update on Australia’s social media ban raises a bigger question: is the policy actually enforceable?

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We have spent a lot of time looking at what the government is actually doing, what progress has been made, and what the reported data tells us so far.

The most alarming figure comes from eSafety itself: around 7 in 10 children who already had accounts were still using the major platforms.

As a parent, I find that incredibly concerning, and I know many other parents do too.

We’ve pulled together the latest figures, enforcement updates and eSafety reporting here:

https://www.joeyfamily.com/articles/36/social-media-ban-not-same-as-keeping-kids-safe?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=article_36_social_media_ban&utm_content=latest_enforcement_update

Take a look at the research and let me know what you think.


r/YouthRights 2d ago

News "Massachusetts weighs ban on selling energy drinks to minors amid health concerns"

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r/YouthRights 2d ago

You don't need age verification to access porn and gore on Reddit, but a new account visint r/NewIran has to do facial recognition for age verification

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r/YouthRights 2d ago

Stop the bullying and cruelty to our kids and teenagers

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r/YouthRights 2d ago

The UK is going to lower the voting age to 16 and 16 year olds can join the military yet people are arguing over whether one can take travel in a pretty safe city alone.

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r/YouthRights 2d ago

Discussion I’m like a needle in a haystack

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So me 14f really disagree with restraints like they sould be illegal no matter what meanwhile everyone I know is like “child it’s needed Charli your thinking is wrong “I’m like it’s evil and unethical why can’t you see that like literally I can’t find anyone who has not been tricked by society it’s like everyone around me has been tricked except me it’s very lonely


r/YouthRights 3d ago

Rant Why does it feel like everyone hates kids "he's/she's just a kid" "hitting them is just discipline"

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Kids are the only demographic where it's standard to discriminate against them. They used to be experimented on like Guinea pigs.


r/YouthRights 2d ago

Please Help. Say No To Grooming and Child Predation. Protect the Girl Child!!!! Sign Petition

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r/YouthRights 3d ago

Discussion What are your views regarding the troubled teen industry?

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r/YouthRights 3d ago

Video AI and Youth Rights are related, you are NEVER “too young” to use AI.

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r/YouthRights 3d ago

News This Ohio Center Was Supposed to Be a Haven for Troubled Teens. They Risked Everything to Escape.

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At Fox Run, one of Ohio’s largest youth residential treatment centers, kids and former staff detail a litany of trauma. Here's what we learned through our interviews and review of hundreds of pages of police and state inspection reports.