House of Lords votes to ban social media for under-16s
www.theregister.com
: As public consultation kicks off, members of UK Parliament's second chamber highlight damage to children

Not finalised but it seems like 2027 may see an Australia-style ban enter force on TERF island.

My hot take™

It’s pretty transparent how this is a reaction to trends of Anti-Zionism and other ideologies (leftist and fascist) which the state has little means to control beyond blanket restrictions.

Can’t wait to see glowing reports of social media app usage “plumetting” whilst pretending we cant see the kids moving over to stormfront-angloreich dot org dot uk on their mobile browsers.

  • Carcharodonna [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Im in Australia. Literally they dont. it pretty much just applies to facebook, instagram, tiktok etc, and kids have easily bypassed the half arsed efforts for age restrictions anyway.

    Those platforms censor pro-Palestine content anyways. So if this pushes people off of pro-Israel, for-profit platforms, that seems… Like a good thing? Even if unintentional.

    Edit: They didn’t even ban fucking 4Chan or Roblox, literally two of the worst platforms for kids to be interacting with the worst people.

    Yeah that’s pretty absurd to say it’s for protecting kids and leave those alone.