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The Register | House of "Lords" in the Anglo Entity votes to ban social media for under-16s
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My question is, how do they enforce this for federated social media? Is it just restricted to certain large companies?
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. It doesn't apply to forums or anything so overall it has been an enormous waste of time, but i guess it got the israel lobbies to stfu for a little bit.
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. The whole premise of it being about protecting kids from harm was such a load of shit. It's obvious they wanted a tiktok ban but were concerned about how blatant it would look like they were doing it for israel so they broadened it to a bunch of other social media sites that kids dont even use.
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.
Yeah that’s pretty absurd to say it’s for protecting kids and leave those alone.
I assume these laws would allow for persecution against fediverse and other small platforms too. It's just hasn't come to that yet. And some small sites have shut down or started restricting UK IPs in response to the online safety act. https://onlinesafetyact.co.uk/in_memoriam/
We are ruled over by child r*ping monsters. Anyone who repeats, "protecting the children" should be put in the stocks and pelted with rotten fruit. These people are the thing we need to protect children from
Smaller stuff avoids the bans, usually with some "minimum active users" clause. That, or the UK govt doesn't bother and hope others follow the example of the big corps. It's risky but it's not like it's that hard to fix up later if ofcom asks.