Curious how this effects those weird family vloggers. It would be great if the ban also includes filming your children for your own content or building profiles you manage on their behalf.
Under-16s to be banned from social media, Starmer announces
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#12For any Australians who are already living with this, how's it going over there? Would you say the policy has been a success or not?
I did read a story about a mother and teen influencer who was moving to the UK because of the ban. I wonder how they're feeling.
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#13Can this be realistically enforced without parents help?
Conveniently, this will force the government to authenticate all users of social media to ensure they are over 16.
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#14It’s a failure of capitalism that one of the greatest educational resources in four generations (YouTube) gets walled off to those who need it most. I’d say shame on Google for letting shorts ruin this for the kids, or shame on the UK government for short-sightedness, but it’s pretty easy to see where both are coming from.
> one of the greatest educational resources in four generations (YouTube)
Depends. I struggle to follow video content, and do better with text. YMMV.
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#15It’s a failure of capitalism that one of the greatest educational resources in four generations (YouTube) gets walled off to those who need it most. I’d say shame on Google for letting shorts ruin this for the kids, or shame on the UK government for short-sightedness, but it’s pretty easy to see where both are coming from.
my my nieces are always "how do you know so much" I then show them my playlist on youtube (veretassium, tomscott, redvsblue, pbs eons etc) they go back to scrolling though shorts right after. you can lead a horse to water but well...
Yes, but for the simile to work the horse has to be hooked on a special horse-feed lined with cocaine or something.
Admittedly children have ignored well meaning adults trying to educate them for all of history...
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#16It’s a failure of capitalism that one of the greatest educational resources in four generations (YouTube) gets walled off to those who need it most. I’d say shame on Google for letting shorts ruin this for the kids, or shame on the UK government for short-sightedness, but it’s pretty easy to see where both are coming from.
It is super easy to see where this is coming from with youtube.
Speaking from experience: there is just no usable way to limit youtube to certain types of content, or disable "discovery" UI. Recommendation engine gravity is just too strong. Whatever useful kid/educational content they have is swamped by the ocean of attention sinks.
Shorts only made this worse.
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#17Honest question: Is this about anything else than forcing all citizens to ID themselves to the government before using digital services?
Here's a random movie recommendation that has nothing at all to do with the above comment or the original link posted: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405094
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#18Honest question: Is this about anything else than forcing all citizens to ID themselves to the government before using digital services?
Who cares, it’s just the internet.
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#19Honest question: Is this about anything else than forcing all citizens to ID themselves to the government before using digital services?
Have they said you’ll need to provide ID? My guess would be they do it through other mechanisms like age estimation. I know X is already doing this for posts labelled mature. If they do estimation through account age most people are probably already basically verified on lots of the main social media services.
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#20Comes after certain ethnostates have the LOWEST popularity among young populations, and I'm certain this will help change that.
The Iran war was won online and it's been widely reported the young amoung the military had extreme low levels of morale which had an impact on the battlefield.
Social media is national security threat to our governments and colonialism needs it's foot soldiers.