UK bans under-16s from using social media apps including TikTok and YouTube
apnews.com
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Britain will ban children under 16 from using social media apps like Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube from early next year.
  • DisgruntledPelican@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    7 days ago

    It is written in the sky that this will backfire. Banning social media for people under 16 and they will discover and invent alternative for it. It is like putting an obstacle in a natural path in a park people will find a way. The next step will be that when this generation will be in power, they will finally put restrictions on the the older one to take such bad decisions.

  • dektep@lemmy.worldEnglish
    164·
    7 days ago

    this bans it for everyone. except those retarded enough to dox themselves

        • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
          22·
          7 days ago

          I suspect they’re jumping on your use of the word “retarded”, since some see using it as an insult as a slur against people with intellectual disabilities. (They also can’t spell “casually” and substituted a word with quite a different meaning, which makes it even tougher to decode what they’re saying.)

          • dektep@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            7 days ago

            ahh thanks. i didn’t even think of that. but yeah, their comment was super weird