The plan to ban children under 16 from social media
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/children-under-16-face-ban-from-social-media-7k9xp7jnw
by vriska1
The plan to ban children under 16 from social media
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/children-under-16-face-ban-from-social-media-7k9xp7jnw
by vriska1
41 comments
I doubt it will work- it’s not like stopping under age sales in pubs.
Yeh this’ll work, just like on pornhub where you just click the button that says “I’m over 18” 🙄
The plan to ~~ban children under 16~~ force identification for social media
Should ban everyone from it tbh. It’s a net negative for society.
Yes, including Reddit.
Maybe just ban social media in general? Has melted too many people’s brains.
Australia has been discussing this for a while now. It’s extremely difficult to put in place, but it will be good for young children.
I think it would be a good idea but lets be honest near impossible to make work unless its some type of ID changes
It won;t and would put them further at risk when they go over to dark web stuff.
The kids aren’t the issue, better to target those pushing shitty content, scams and other criminal activity
Ban this ban that ban the other.
That’s Labour all over. What will they ban next? That is the question.
Reading into it the Gov may back the private member’s bill “The Safer Phones Bill”
https://saferphonesbill.co.uk/
Do want to point out it may not be a outright ban but to do with collecting children’s data.
> MacAlister’s bill, the new draft of which will be next debated in parliament in March and has the backing of Dame Rachel de Souza, the children’s commissioner, is likely to propose a rise in the age of internet adulthood from 13 to 16, in effect making it impossible for social media sites to process **children’s data** without drastically overhauling their apps.
Banning anything just moves it underground. Ban vapes well the kids are already addicted, ban social media when the youth clubs are gone.
I think it’s more pro active to manage the situation. I have restrictions on both my childrens’ phones plus a child’s SIM card it doesn’t stop them. They’re open enough to talk to me and also teach me. Tweens and teens are being banished from society, how is cutting them off further helpful.
I’m glad I was born in between no Internet and Internet, no such thing as social media until I was old enough to grow up into it. The state of some children now is shocking, real screen addiction and growing up wanting to be an influencer instead of an actual productive member of society.
Honestly fuck social media it’s 99.9% toxic waste.
I have never understood this philosophy of attempting to ban things.
It would seem to be much more efficient and effective to instead make a concerted effort to teach sound epistemology as early as possible in the education system and then reinforce it through the remainder of the curriculum.
That isn’t going to solve every problem but I’d imagine that it will solve, or at least drastically improve, a shit load of problems across society and it requires no new spending.
Once we equip people with the appropriate tools for dealing with a complex modern world we can then re-evaluate what tyrannical measures still need to be taken. Let’s just at least first try to resolve the fundamental problems before we start curtailing people’s freedoms.
EDIT: For clarity, the only reason things like social media are so good at corrupting people is because they tap into the worst of our evolutionary traits like tribalism which are just not relevant in today’s world. The only way to protected against this evolutionary momentum is by improving epistemology so that people can recognise the traps and irrational thinking that these things rely on so that they don’t fall victim to it.
Needs to happen.
It was manageable when timelines were chronological, but now that these companies are hell-bent on getting as much user retention as possible, it has become addictive. Should be treated with the same caution as any addictive substance.
ah great, out of touch dinosaurs try to regulate thing they have no idea about.
Wont end badly at all…
It’s too late, they are already scared and offended
Or the government could just tell parents the truth: that it’s THEIR JOB to monitor what their children are doing on the Internet, and not the government’s or social media platform’s job to babysit for them
I like this idea not because it will work but the idea of people younger than me being punished brings me great joy
Here’s an alternative plan. How about we fix the economy and let people get on with their lives.
Adults waste a massive amount of time on social media, but my problem with them is the Algorithm making all these crazy echo chambers, of manosphere, conspiracies, tradwife, etc.
Super idea. Let’s make the platform responsible for it though.
Even if it were to stop some kids, its better than nothing. The fucking brainrot being shoved into developing brains is insane.
Silly to ban em
Just make it so they have to show ID and have an under 18s version of these apps imo
No reason for underage kids to be on the same platform as adults and seeing adult posts
Unpopular Opinion: Just ban social media in general. Just do it. It will be tough at first for everyone (and yes it will be very tough for me) BUT I feel that eventually it will be a net-positive and we’ll get used to it.
Almost like parents should be parenting, its amazing that all of this can be done already by parents just knowing how to actually configure their childrens phones and home routers.
yes at least theres some protection against that return of the rotten parts of the 2010s that is smartphones.
It’s a great idea. A lot of the problems with children on social media are around the issues of bulling, I was bullied at school when I went home in the evening and at the weekend I could escape it. Now kids are bullied 24/7 in person at school and online when they are at home.
It’s going to be hard to do but that doesn’t mean with worth doing
This will work as well as banning kids from smoking and dabbling with drugs. Nice bit of smoke and mirrors to distract us from the real economic and political hardships
Half of social media doesn’t actually implement their age restrictions. There are 12 year olds in WhatsApp and 11 year olds on Insta. It doesn’t work unless the apps require proof of ID
Honestly, in terms of harms the internet actually causes to society, they’d be better off banning over 60s from social media. Without Facebook, Twitter or telegram, that generation would be in such a better place, as would society.
Once again they are using the meme of “Won’t somebody think of the children” to push more authoritarian bullshit.
I you genuinely believe that the Government want this solely to protect children then please DM as I have some magic beans to sell you.
This is nothing but an excuse to role put and test some kind of Internet ID.
Once it is done for whatever reason it will spread to everything else..
I wish I’d been banned until I was 26, then I would probably have done a lot more useful things with my life
and how will this properly work without using ID? because i’m sure as hell not using government ID to use the internet and i’m 22.
This is good. Maybe if this passes there will be less ignorant ‘political activist’s poisoned by propaganda…
Social media companies don’t want to cooperate because it has gotten too bad for them. They want to cooperate because this means more data for them to sell that they will acquire through the age verification process. Having data that actually *verifies* someone’s age instead of guessing it based on their activity? This is a goldmine!
It has to be done, a whole generation is brain rotted. Zero concentration.
Hear me out, what if we just ban the real source of this problem; the children themselves!
The best way to get kids off social media is to show their parents everything they post.
The theory is great. The intention is great and well meaning. The practicalities are just impossible without alignment of all social media companies and governments, backed by industry.
It just takes one country to put their foot down and force these companies to enforce their own rules. Glad it’s the UK.
Good luck policing that, which’ll be another huge waste of money for the whole show of the thing.
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