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The Register | House of "Lords" in the Anglo Entity votes to ban social media for under-16s (www.theregister.com)

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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.

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[–] Carcharodonna@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

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/