There have been calls for an Australia-style ban in the UK and the Prime Minister hasn't ruled out banning British under-16-year-olds from social media, saying "all options are on the table".

The UK government, MPs, organisations and public figures are discussing whether there should be stronger rules about children’s access to social media - including an Australia-style ban for under-16s.

  • loops@feddit.ukEnglish
    31·
    1 day ago

    Im for it myself. Honestly wouldn’t mind a ban on algorithmic based news given the state that America is in.

    I’m starting to see social media as smoking. It’s bad for you. Give up

    • KryptonBlur@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3·
      9 hours ago

      But to implement it would require age verification… Which we already know is a horrible idea

      • loops@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        8 hours ago

        Kids growing up being able to see porn on demand is also a horrible idea. Arguably a more horrible idea.

        The onus is on us to provide a solution to that if we want to remove ID checks from websites that serve adult material. Which currently is porn but could be easily expanded to social media.

    • brewery@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      10 hours ago

      Does that include Lemmy? Im trying to device if I could spend less time on here as my only type of social media