UK under-16 social media ban may expand to 150 platforms, including YouTube Kids, Lego Play and Spotify. See who it hits and when it starts.
I really hope people understand that it was never about protecting children. They want to track the rest of us.
Fun fact: Meta is funding all of this.
They’ll just remove social media features for those users
No company is going to pass up the opportunity to advertise to kids
Youtube kids already has that stuff removed. Including ads. You can’t even subscribe to a channel.
Oh really, I just assumed it was more of a content filtered mode
I wonder what aspects fall foul of the law then
Per the first paragraph of the article:
The UK under-16 social media ban is about to get much bigger. In fact, new reports say ministers want the rules to cover recommender systems and user-generated content. As a result, YouTube Kids, Lego Play and even Spotify could fall under the ban. Up to 150 platforms could face the new restrictions.
Well they can outright remove personalised recommendations no problem, a flat curated list can be generated pretty easily, they could even employ an editor (lol, lmao even). I’m assuming non personalised recommendations should be fine given the alternative would be overly broad by quite some margin
UGC is going to be an interesting one depending on the rules they expect to enforce on them. Human moderated content is probably the most likely thing that would probably be a deal breaker for them continuing it
