Most grooming comes from adults so lets ban children online. That this is a real train of thought even and then gets a political majority says ALOT about y'all politicians.

Clearly this is about controlling the masses.

The government announced it would ban under-16s accessing social media in June this year, with children prevented from accessing 10 of the biggest platforms. YouTube will also be banned for under-16s, but YouTube Kids - a version of the video-sharing app designed to be safe for children - will not be included in the measures. A complete list of affected platforms has not yet been released, but the government said it would cover those "whose purpose is to enable social interaction and which allow users to post material". That means platforms that have livestreaming or features that enable the potential for strangers to contact children will also be restricted, which includes gaming sites.

Don't worry they're on it. They will ban everything, just in case.

Fully agree. Their excuses are straight up propaganda based on the government themself manipulating the masses.

The fact is, if both points where respected we wouldnt be in the situation we are now. Its quite sad to be seeing autonomous people being forcefully stripped off their rights, identity and everything.

There's already plans to ban social media for under 16s AFAIK

Not sure if that'll apply to Lemmy or not, but I guess Lemmy servers could just geoblock visitors from regions that enforce this.

On a local site as a teen I sold like 20 books or something and lots of unused crap I no longer needed, including phones, PC's, keyboards ... both by mail and face 2 face.

Shhh.. Dont give them new ideas. I mean they're already following 1984 by the book.

Side note, loyalty systems are a capitalist sham that should effectively be scrapped.

Can under-18s hold many loyalty discount cards? I expect co-op stores allow it from 16, as they've been supporting votes at 16 for years.

Seriously, this is getting out of hand. Pure authoritarianism is what this is, constantly nagging and nagging and people are naive enought to trust such motives.

"Our official position is that the internet is for adults so don't let your mum catch you" would solve all this silly shit

I'll take the greens. Only candidate in the last election who has done anything beneficial to society. Last I saw her she was taking part in a clean up at the local beach.

Labour candidate was a gymbro. Libdem hadn't bothered to update his profile since running in a previous election over 100 miles away, Tory is current MP and voted to allow water companies to endlessly dump sewage on the beach. She is also a fucking moron (or happy to pander to far right hate mobs) based on the few posts I have heard of from her.

I'm surprised they left Epstein-bay open after seizing Epstein Island

They don't want you to reuse things. More plastic to the plastic gods!