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The move was due to fears that messaging functions on the platforms allowed strangers to groom children, according to the newspaper. It suggested similar reselling platforms, Depop and Facebook Marketplace, would also be included in the list of banned sites.
I don’t even know what to say to this LOL.
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Most child abuse comes from family members, therefore under-16s will be banned from interacting with their parents and relatives.
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.
Wait what? You want to interact with children? Very suspicious!
Are they going to take the same approach to ending racism and simply not allow non-white people outside?
keep the youth in the dark, so they dont gather and protest.
How about banning the government from Xitter instead?
More and more I am grateful for these nutjobs leaving the EU.
This is actually insane. There are so many other platforms that should take priority in “child protection” before Vinted and eBay.
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.
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.
Clearly this is about controlling the masses.
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.
It bears repeating this is not about the children… it’s about ending online anonimity for everybody, one website at a time.
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
I think at this stage they should just turn off the internet
Pointless, as usual, from the clueless idiots of the UK government.
Do literally anything besides parenting.
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.
Oh no what if they buy and sell!!?? Poor kids???
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.
