René Rabeder: Britain will ban social media for under-16s while lowering voting age
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Britain is preparing to give 16-year-olds the vote while keeping under-16s off major social media platforms.
A teenager may soon be old enough to help choose a government, while the state still treats him as too young for the digital arena where politics is now watched, shared, mocked and fought over.
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