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    Großbritannien führt vollständiges Social-Media-Verbot für unter 16-Jährige ein – einschließlich X, YouTube, TikTok

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    2. mydadisyourdad2 on

      How will it be enforced? Are we all expected to hand over government IDs to random private corporations to access much of the internet now?

    3. orlybatman on

      Canada is doing this too. Attempts to do this have happened elsewhere and it doesn’t work.

      Rather than restrict millions of people, they need to regulate and restrict the handful of companies at the core of the issue.

    4. reality_hijacker on

      I don’t mind this as a law to be enforced by parents but not if this means government ID verification everywhere.

      In any case, if you are handling an account that you want to keep anonymous from the Government, run it from Panama or some other obscure place with VPN.

    5. -Wiseone- on

      I’m all for social media but YouTube is not social media. Maybe shorts, but the whole of YouTube, that’s a bit much..

    6. vriska1 on

      Everyone in the UK needs to contact thier MP about this under 16 ban and tell them it will lead to data breaches and internet censorship.

      There needs to be huge pushback to this like right now

    7. tylerthe-theatre on

      Social media is a mixed bag, it has some positives but for the last maybe decade or so it has had some pretty negative effects on society that are well documented.

      We’re in the social media 2.0 phase, the original MySpace, Facebook intention of platforms to connect people is gone entirely, this version is just serving ads and engagement above everything else.

    8. Ok-Replacement8864 on

      YouTube as well? I get tiktok and x but what about all the kids learning skills from YouTube tutorials? I’m 31 I’ve self taught myself so many skills over years from YouTube. Just seems kinda shit to limit these teenagers to books and school learning.

    12. IngwiePhoenix on

      > including YouTube

      Well then. Brits are officially about to take a heavy-duty maschine gun to their foot. I _can_ understand X, TikTok and such to a very, very certain degree if I squint real hard – but Youtube? The education driver for about a century? Oh you done goof bro.

    13. NotaRussianbott89 on

      If they cared about harmful content for teens they would be holding the company accountable for promoting algorithms that have be proven harmful.
      Also if they aim to stop online harm in the uk they should ban anyone over 50 from social media .

    14. Sapling-074 on

      I find this extremely stupid. Reminds me of when I was a kid and they wanted to ban video games because kids spent too much time on them.

    15. Tyjet66 on

      A lot of schools use YouTube as an additional education aid. Real smart blocking that for children.

    16. crowwreak on

      Lemme guess, ecause he knows no social media site is ever gonna put the resources in to actually police it, it’s gonna be that fucking Palantir face scan again isn’t it?

    17. ifupred on

      Wish we could do this for adults in India. The number of uncles and aunties just hooked on the phone sending forwards has been detrimental society as a whole tbh.

    18. Damage2Damage on

      My Facebook, X and Google accounts are older than 16 years, so that means you can prove that I’m over 16 without handing a doggy website my ID right? RIGHT?

    19. seanyseanyseanyseany on

      Reform will be pledging to scrap this and it will win them votes. I don’t like reform but you’re an idiot if you think this is going to go well for Starmer. It’s not going to be implemented well just like how the OSA was a shitshow

    20. billwood09 on

      Imagine nobody understanding on-device verification where your phone knows what age you are and just passes a token to a site that says you are over 16

    21. viskonde on

      Putting YouTube in the bucket, that parents are the first ones to give to the kids when they are 2 and start crying  might make people completely ignore the rest

      If YouTube is forbidden but all parents will give it anyway, why also not ignore the law and give TikTok with funny videos or Instagram to the kids?

      Not saying is not good ..  but will be highly ignored and may make the rest be ignored as well 

      And how will they even control this on a app that works without login? Or will now YouTube be closed and require ID? Sure 

    22. Kantina on

      The real damage being done by social media is to the over 16s – those of us who grew up alongside its rise. Kids are switching off social media in their droves, or never bothered engaging because there could see what brainless fuckwits their parents had turned into. This is stable door bolting. Real change will only come from accountability. make the platform owners responsible for what’s said on their platforms – like a newspaper is, or a TV or radio station is. Then see the change you want to happen.

    24. Wonderful-Medium7777 on

      I wonder how all the childrens channels on you tube for kids feel. There are so many age related learning channels for children on there, plus how does this affect the family channels who constantly use their children for content?

    25. -Spiritlol on

      Why YouTube? Maybe I’m not understanding something, but YouTube is and can be used as a great education tool.

      Why not ban specific channels which provide no benefit for humanity like vloggers, instead of a full site ban? YouTube from what I remember growing up becomes a problem when you leave children unattended, and don’t monitor what they’re engaging in.

      A YouTube ban makes no sense, so many math channels I used won’t be available to children, making the desperity between children who are well off and can afford tutors, and poor families who can’t afford tutors worse. Though we now have AI, to bridge the gap, but the way some channels go through certain problems will be missing.

      Also, it will make tech literacy worse imo. I grew up in a world that was at the infancy of web. People who gain access to the internet now don’t have that understanding, don’t know why certain things are the way they are now on the internet. Banning kids from YouTube will make that understanding of the internet worse. Which is not a good thing considering the future of humanity is a world intertwined with the internet. Already most genz kids have worse tech literacy skills then the generation before them (not me though 😎). This is going to make that even worse.

    26. Lezus on

      so you mean im going to have to always be on a vpn if i just want to browse the internet or watch youtube because im 36 but refuse to give my data to these companies

    27. AriyaSavaka on

      Gerontocracy in action. Geriatric freaks love controlling. Police state and mass surveillance.

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