I don’t think the opposition is anything to do with restricting young people’s access to poisonous social media - the problems are in application:
Applying it to any and all possible websites which have a comment section
Instead of local computer admin account options, which could be implemented safely at home and easily complied with by any website, large or small, they’ve chosen to go with the same method as their porn ban - every person over that age must upload a scan of their face, a copy of their passport etc etc and freely give this information over to proven untrustworthy websites
All these websites must use “authorised age checking technology” from “our list of approved vendors” who are not trustworthy, and sell on the data.
Even if those were secured, once people have normalised “please scan your face” on websites, it’s very easy to set up a scam site to trick photos and IDs out of people. Horrific security risk for everyone in the country.
Anyway, the face scanning software is easy for large corporate websites to put in place, plus they get extra data gathering for free! This is difficult for smaller hobbyist websites to put in place, so it’s easier for them to simply block the UK, like many already do.
Basically, the social media ban would include things like Lemmy, or small obscure hobby forums, and using them would be illegal (for website and user) unless they could be tracked to your scanned face and photo ID.
So if, in future, I were to say something like “Israel is not 100% correct about everything” on Lemmy, that can be easily tracked back to my name, face and address - and currently, that carries a risk of imprisonment as a “terrorist”.
Basically it’s literally nothing to do with kids at all, and simply part of a larger plan to destroy any privacy or anonymity on the Internet.
I don’t think the opposition is anything to do with restricting young people’s access to poisonous social media - the problems are in application:
Applying it to any and all possible websites which have a comment section
Instead of local computer admin account options, which could be implemented safely at home and easily complied with by any website, large or small, they’ve chosen to go with the same method as their porn ban - every person over that age must upload a scan of their face, a copy of their passport etc etc and freely give this information over to proven untrustworthy websites
All these websites must use “authorised age checking technology” from “our list of approved vendors” who are not trustworthy, and sell on the data.
Even if those were secured, once people have normalised “please scan your face” on websites, it’s very easy to set up a scam site to trick photos and IDs out of people. Horrific security risk for everyone in the country.
Anyway, the face scanning software is easy for large corporate websites to put in place, plus they get extra data gathering for free! This is difficult for smaller hobbyist websites to put in place, so it’s easier for them to simply block the UK, like many already do.
Basically, the social media ban would include things like Lemmy, or small obscure hobby forums, and using them would be illegal (for website and user) unless they could be tracked to your scanned face and photo ID.
So if, in future, I were to say something like “Israel is not 100% correct about everything” on Lemmy, that can be easily tracked back to my name, face and address - and currently, that carries a risk of imprisonment as a “terrorist”.
Basically it’s literally nothing to do with kids at all, and simply part of a larger plan to destroy any privacy or anonymity on the Internet.