Submitted 4 days ago by letraset@feddit.dk to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y7r9gqp6jo
Banning social apps for under-16s, as has happened in Australia, is one of the options being considered.
Kendall said a response to the consultation would be published in the summer.
Campaigners are broadly split on whether an outright ban on social apps for children is the best approach.
This will be the excuse to make VPNs illegal. Very convenient.
Its basically impossible to make VPNs illegal. They’re trivial to set up and many of the worlds businesses depend on them for their IT infrastructure.
Don’t worry, businesses will be exempt, and enforcement will only be for people the government doesn’t like. Watch out, trans folks.
I’m not British, but from the outside it seems the meeting could give an unpopular Starmer a saviour story he desperately needs, and an ID-based system would let big tech have its way with citizens: the algorithms tearing our societies apart remain unchallenged and profitable.
Politicians love the idea of a social media ban for kids because they don’t have to do much, but it looks like they’re doing a lot.
Seeking out those most harmed by any one thing and then forbidding or censoring that thing doesn’t seem like great reasoning.
Their suffering is real but no basis for modern governance.
Jimmy was tragically killed and his parents are crying on TV and saying it could have been avoided if Jimmy had been legally required to remain indoors. Playing outside is child abuse.
letraset@feddit.dk 4 days ago
I’m concerned that a ban is one of the likely outcomes of the consultation. I don’t think it’s the right way to tackle this. It’s not only children who are victims in this, although they are the most tragic ones. Social media platforms affect us all. Regulation of functionality and design patterns is in my opinion a better option, although the optics of such doesn’t give the picture of a decisive government in quite the same way as a ban.
Requiring ID to use social media puts the onus on the users. The onus should be on the platforms.
Semjeza@fedinsfw.app 4 days ago
Requiring ID makes people happier with ID docs overall, so that they can still swipe through TikTok or whatever they do these days.
Asking change and responsibility of the companies might lower shareholder value.
letraset@feddit.dk 4 days ago
Requiring ID also vaporizes more of the rights to privacy online for the entire rest of the population, and if you are against that, then it must be because you don’t care about child safety.