Meanwhile the public are looking seriously at whether the government has completely lost the plot.

What next, ID verification required to open an Argos catalogue? Go into Tesco? Although, Tesco already charge you more if you are under 18 as children can't join their card system

Naughty children! How dare they shop!

Just ban the internet at this point.

Can we seriously look at banning this government? Greens seem sensible enough.

God, you can't sell anyone these days.

Luckily, UK govt will adopt Sam Altman's Orb and everyone can probe who they are by eye scan. O Brave New World...

.... but why?

And who the fuck is Lisa Nandy?? Bit of a shit article, BBC.

Next: UK Government to ban children interacting with other people in real life

Most child abuse comes from family members, therefore under-16s will be banned from interacting with their parents and relatives.

How about banning the government from Xitter instead?

The impact is already creeping up from the constant infantilisation of teenagers and destroying their autonomy based on falsified premises. Expect more and more articles indicating the discriminatory situation teenagers are put in.

The fact people are being reduced to children makes it so much easier to force people to support fascism - discrimination is what is happening.

This is actually insane. There are so many other platforms that should take priority in "child protection" before Vinted and eBay.

I mean you can block the messages or like set predefined messages only. You can do many things before blocking an entire marketplace. Honestly just sounds like Amazon lobbying

It's good that they are pushing this after they released their own findings that the only safety act so far has done nothing to protect kids - the one upside they were claiming.

Can't wait until they arrive at the only rational solution: to just straight up ban children from existing.

Oh no what if they buy and sell!!?? Poor kids???

The modern resurgence of fascism is appalling. It's never fully gone away and now instead of being left in the waste bin of history some brainless fucks are taking it out dusting it off and pretending that it's always been a good thing actually.

This is so much the wrong approach that i can't even imagine how fucked up these politicians have to be in their minds to enact such crap.

The people that need to be restricted are the evil guys, not the good guys.

This means that social media platforms have to be held responsible if they do not have effective mechanisms to prevent groomers from harassing minors. (I would cut some leeway for new exploits and such - unforseen problems should not instantly doom a platform, as long as these are fixable)

Isolating your youth from important communication streams will only cause problems the moment that they are of age and completely naive - and this is exactly what this legislation is achieving.

Do literally anything besides parenting.

A 15 year old isn't a child.

Trans kids are hurt by measures that block them from finding community and help online that are blocked irl for them.

I was actually going to say something about teenagers not needing to be active on sites like eBay. But then I remember my older brother starting his toy collection years ago when he was 13-14 buying toys on eBay,

Instagram and Facebook sure. Ban them for everybody.

But ebay?

Facebook first

Anyone who've used ebay message knows that it is nearly impossible to have a consist communication on it. Their message feature is just so hard to use.

contact your local MPs.

Oh ffs

Strange. I'd think they'd want everyone shopping.

So you're going to ban amazon.co.uk too right... right?

Keeping vulnerable kids under the thumbs of bad parents and tyrants.