Rather than regulate the cancer that is social media companies, they want to ban youths from being easily able to contact one another outside of regular texting and phone calls.
Probably not a coincidence that the UK just ruled that protesting the genocide in Palestine somehow constitutes “terrorism”. Seems all these laws against young people on social media all sparked after it became apparent that most all young people oppose Israel. Not a coincidence.
I get that many view this as government overreach, but in this case I’m OK with it. If it hurts these platforms then so be it. A 10 year old has no business being on tiktok. I’ve got kids and I can police this stuff myself, to an extent, but I’ve seen many neglectful parents who just leave their kids to their own devices (figuratively and litterally). If this prevents children being prematurely exposed to these garbage platforms then I don’t personally see the issue, but I’m open to reasonable counter arguments.
A 10 year old has no business being on tiktok
Government overreach.
Parentsshouldshouldn’t issue an internet capable phone to a 10 y/o. And if, restrict it to hell and heavens.
Enforcing this ban will be a privacy nightmare for people.
Which is the idea, especially assuming it also targets the decentralized networks like the Fediverse. Like, will self-hosting Fediverse instances, and self-hosting anything at all even if it’s completely offline suddenly be criminalized there?
And what about open-source OSes like Linux and BSD? Will those also be targeted or will websites start blocking those OSes in UK borders now?
