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sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

UK Introduces Full Social Media Ban For Under 16s - Including X, YouTube, TikTok

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UK Introduces Full Social Media Ban For Under 16s - Including X, YouTube, TikTok

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UK Introduces Social Media Ban For Under 16s Inc X, YouTube, TikTok
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The UK has brought in a social media ban for under 16s that includes X, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook and Reddit.
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    It won’t work lol

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      Sure it’ll work, adults will identify themselves online, which is the point, and VPN usage will go up, guess where they’re gonna hit next.

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        How are they going to enforce a VPN ban?

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          About as effectively as they keep kids off social media. It’s just ratcheting up the technical requirements for anything approaching anonymity, and more get lost along the way.

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