UK’s Under 16 Social Media Ban Risks Digital ID Expansion

UK’s Under 16 Social Media Ban Risks Digital ID Expansion

The UK’s under 16 social media ban has raised privacy concerns over age verification, digital ID, surveillance and children moving to less regulated platforms.

Elon Musk Condemns UK Social Media Restrictions as Government Surveillance Trick

Elon Musk has accused Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's government of using its proposed social media crackdown as a back‑door surveillance scheme, telling his 100‑million‑plus followers on X that the planned under‑16s restrictions are really about enabling the state to 'track everyone'. The tech billionaire's intervention, posted on 15 June from his own platform, comes as ministers finalise plans for a legal ban on under‑16s having social media…

INSIDER: POLICE STATE – UK’s chilling social media ban is Orwell on steroids

Views and opinions expressed are solely those of the author. UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer is the most tyrannical leader since King George himself reigned over jolly old England, and it isn’t even close. In his classic 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, British author George Orwell envisioned a nightmarish dystopia of propaganda, oppression, and mass surveillance, a society that took one jackbooted step closer to reality this week. Starmer announ…

Starmer takes on big tech with threat of new laws over child safety - London Tech News

Starmer has issued a warning to the world’s biggest technology companies that the Government will “do whatever it takes” to protect children

Ofcom raises concerns about age verification for social media limits but will work on solutions

The UK Government announced widely expected bans for young children using social media, and limitations on uses by 16 and 17-year olds. These are due to come in next spring and will affect platform such as TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat and X but will exclude messaging services like WhatsApp and Signal. There’s much left to come our about how these restrictions will work but to re-cap, we listed the changes as: – Ban on social m…

Musk brands UK a 'police state' as Big Tech rebels against Starmer’s social media ban

Starmer’s planned social media ban for under-16s has been hit for driving teenagers towards less safe corners of the internet