Not finalised but it seems like 2027 may see an Australia-style ban enter force on TERF island.
My hot take™
It’s pretty transparent how this is a reaction to trends of Anti-Zionism and other ideologies (leftist and fascist) which the state has little means to control beyond blanket restrictions.
Can’t wait to see glowing reports of social media app usage “plumetting” whilst pretending we cant see the kids moving over to stormfront-angloreich dot org dot uk on their mobile browsers.
Step 1: Destroy third spaces
Step 2: Criminalize the public existence of adolescents, driving them to the only place they have anything resembling a community: digital spaces
Step 3: Take away the digital spaces
Step 4: ???idk step 4, but 5 will almost certainly be shockedpikachuface.jpg
My question is, how do they enforce this for federated social media? Is it just restricted to certain large companies?
Im in Australia. Literally they dont. it pretty much just applies to facebook, instagram, tiktok etc, and kids have easily bypassed the half arsed efforts for age restrictions anyway. It doesn’t apply to forums or anything so overall it has been an enormous waste of time, but i guess it got the israel lobbies to stfu for a little bit.
Edit: They didn’t even ban fucking 4Chan or Roblox, literally two of the worst platforms for kids to be interacting with the worst people. The whole premise of it being about protecting kids from harm was such a load of shit. It’s obvious they wanted a tiktok ban but were concerned about how blatant it would look like they were doing it for israel so they broadened it to a bunch of other social media sites that kids dont even use.
Im in Australia. Literally they dont. it pretty much just applies to facebook, instagram, tiktok etc, and kids have easily bypassed the half arsed efforts for age restrictions anyway.
Those platforms censor pro-Palestine content anyways. So if this pushes people off of pro-Israel, for-profit platforms, that seems… Like a good thing? Even if unintentional.
Edit: They didn’t even ban fucking 4Chan or Roblox, literally two of the worst platforms for kids to be interacting with the worst people.
Yeah that’s pretty absurd to say it’s for protecting kids and leave those alone.
I assume these laws would allow for persecution against fediverse and other small platforms too. It’s just hasn’t come to that yet. And some small sites have shut down or started restricting UK IPs in response to the online safety act. https://onlinesafetyact.co.uk/in_memoriam/
The whole premise of it being about protecting kids from harm was such a load of shit.
We are ruled over by child r*ping monsters. Anyone who repeats, “protecting the children” should be put in the stocks and pelted with rotten fruit. These people are the thing we need to protect children from
Smaller stuff avoids the bans, usually with some “minimum active users” clause. That, or the UK govt doesn’t bother and hope others follow the example of the big corps. It’s risky but it’s not like it’s that hard to fix up later if ofcom asks.
I heard another angle the ban was to get kids off the internet so the gambling ads could stay up. It was a tenuous connection but a win-win for corporations and Zionist lobby groups
Makes sense with all the bribes Kid Starver has taken from the gambling lobby.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24624306.labour-took-1m-donations-gifts-gambling-firms/
it’s a good thing hexbear is antisocial media
By all means, I welcome less impressionable youth being turned into mindless nazis because idiot pop culture told them its cool. Thanks for shutting down your own propaganda,
.Yeah it’s not something I hate in principle, but kids are just gonna gravitate to unregulated apps, sites, and stuff no different to how people have navigated the porn ban.
All the while, everyone else is encouraged to set up digital identification and age verification which definitely wont be used as infrastructure to implement the torment nexus
