🚨 SUMMARY: The UK's social media ban for children from early 2027:
- "User-to-user" apps where people create, share and interact with content (e.g. TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, X, Facebook) will be banned for under-16s
- WhatsApp, Signal and YouTube Kids will be exempt
- Under-16s will also be banned from livestreaming, messaging strangers on gaming apps like Discord and using disappearing messages
- 16 and 17 year olds will face nightly social media curfews and limits on infinite scrolling with more details next month
- AI "romantic companion" chatbots will be banned for under-18s
- Adults can still access social media through age checks like facial recognition, digital IDs, passports and credit cards
@thugpin I was listening to a podcast about the history of 1970s punk this morning and the person discussing stated “There was a sense in which the government, which was by 1976, 1977, is a minority government, a labor government that can't quite really govern.”
@zirkwood_ What he really means “I haven’t had a chance to steal intel from any well connected journalists, but give it a few days and I’m sure I can pass something off as my own work”
@suhailibnsiraj@adje__@Galaxy123124 But even this guy got a life sentence because it was beyond reasonable doubt. Until it became no longer beyond reasonable doubt.