Social media firms to be forced to ‘drive out’ under-age users

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12/22/social-media-firms-to-be-forced-to-drive-out-under-age-user/

by vriska1

12 comments

  1. Because parents are too lazy to learn how to use parental control on their children’s phone.

  2. Can they also be driven off of YouTube? Having no quality control on the entertainment is the real reason they’re all dumb as fuck.

  3. Ofcom still refuses to talk about the privacy and legal issues of age verification, this is going to end up delayed at the last min.

  4. I’ve yet to see any benefits of children so young owning a smartphone at all. Sure, parents want to keep in touch with their kids but why wouldn’t an old Nokia do that job? I assume that in the future giving your child a phone will be seen as taboo similar to giving them alcohol or cigarettes.

  5. They do not have the staff to do this, nor do they have the desire to hire enough staff to do this. When this means losing a sizeable portion of their current audience, they are not going to change how they operate unless significant fines or criminal charges against the owner and directors come in. Until the likes of Musk and Zuckerberg are personally held responsible for how the likes of Twitter and Facebook operate, it will always be business as usual.

  6. Or perhaps they could be forced to ‘drive out’ the bots and harmful content that is bad for all users instead. Whatever is harming those underage will be harming adults too. It is bizarre this conversation treats 15 year olds as being fundamentally more vulnerable than a 60 year old on the internet. Because it is obviously untrue right? By this logic, we should ban anyone over 75 from the internet because they are more significantly subject to scams…. like where does this thinking stop and how does it actually stop the fraudsters or the harmful content creators?

    Punishing the innocent instead of the harm-doers. Is that where we are really going as societies?!

    No one seems to wonder why the internet is only recently being seen as harmful when it was apparently fine for millennials like me who had free access…

    Any implementation of such laws would require all of us to hand over our ID to already excessively powerful companies in order to prove we aren’t underage.

    Everything about this benefits social media companies. None of it benefits or protects users, underage or otherwise, if anything it does the opposite.

  7. Children are now tyrants not servants of their household. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.

  8. There was a recent presentation by ofcom about the online safety act.

    Meta/Facebook did a presentation on moderation of content.

    They talk about comments and posts and participation as revenue. They talk about moderation not about blocking content, but about hiding it from people that aren’t interested in seeing it (note that is an important distinction).

    Social media companies do not want to block or remove any kind of content from their sites because more participation and eyes on it equals money. They’ll likely try to argue for compensation for a mechanism they invented.

    https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/

  10. Why, as a 31 year old woman, would I want to give the government or social media companies my face, along with in depth information on my views?

  11. The little privacy we have left is always being taken away by dumb motherfuckers who know nothing about the internet.

  12. Personally I would much prefer the Government’s around the world get together and ban images of children all together on social media platforms.

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