{"id":311646,"date":"2026-01-22T15:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/could-vpns-be-banned-for-under-16s-to-keep-them-off-social-media\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T15:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:00:26","slug":"could-vpns-be-banned-for-under-16s-to-keep-them-off-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/could-vpns-be-banned-for-under-16s-to-keep-them-off-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Could VPNs be banned for under 16s to keep them off social media?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/WFZ-2tKKt8Y\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Could VPNs be banned for under 16s to keep them off social media?\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WFZ-2tKKt8Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Reporter Lewis Denison asks Online Safety Minister Kanishka Narayan about the government&#8217;s consultation on whether to ban under 16s from social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>Follow ITV News on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporter Lewis Denison asks Online Safety Minister Kanishka Narayan about the government&#8217;s consultation on whether to ban under 16s from social media. \u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj \u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news Follow ITV News on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en Follow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/ Follow ITV News on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":311647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128812],"tags":[147370,131386,129450],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-311646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-itv-news","tag-denison","tag-lewis","tag-reporter"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Could VPNs be banned for under 16s to keep them off social media? | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Could VPNs be banned for under 16s to keep them off social media? for free, here on News ISC. 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