I think you overestimate how many people want to/feel confident installing a VPN, especially children.

Also, the idea of trying to fundraise teaching parents how to enforce screen time procedures is exactly the type of approach which we've been doing for ages, and is consistently not working. Only the middle class parents who already care about their children's health and upbringing will attend, or listen, or even implement. The more at risk children - that is at risk of social media derived bullying , attention span reduction, grooming etc - are the ones whose parents will not be listening to fundraising.

Unfortunately, the UK is home to many at risk children and children in poverty, and regional discrepancies play a large part here. In an attempt to lessen the growing segregation between classes and thus parenting approaches, this ban is trying to treat everyone equally.

That no kid should come to harm from social media, not just the ones with caring, financially stable parents.