The move was due to fears that messaging functions on the platforms allowed strangers to groom children, according to the newspaper. It suggested similar reselling platforms, Depop and Facebook Marketplace, would also be included in the list of banned sites.
I don’t even know what to say to this LOL.
Anyone who’ve used ebay message knows that it is nearly impossible to have a consist communication on it. Their message feature is just so hard to use.
Instagram and Facebook sure. Ban them for everybody.
But ebay?
Do literally anything besides parenting.
Oh ffs
It’s good that they are pushing this after they released their own findings that the only safety act so far has done nothing to protect kids - the one upside they were claiming.
Can’t wait until they arrive at the only rational solution: to just straight up ban children from existing.
It bears repeating this is not about the children… it’s about ending online anonimity for everybody, one website at a time.
I mean you can block the messages or like set predefined messages only. You can do many things before blocking an entire marketplace. Honestly just sounds like Amazon lobbying
This is so much the wrong approach that i can’t even imagine how fucked up these politicians have to be in their minds to enact such crap.
The people that need to be restricted are the evil guys, not the good guys.
This means that social media platforms have to be held responsible if they do not have effective mechanisms to prevent groomers from harassing minors. (I would cut some leeway for new exploits and such - unforseen problems should not instantly doom a platform, as long as these are fixable)
Isolating your youth from important communication streams will only cause problems the moment that they are of age and completely naive - and this is exactly what this legislation is achieving.
How about banning the government from Xitter instead?
The modern resurgence of fascism is appalling. It’s never fully gone away and now instead of being left in the waste bin of history some brainless fucks are taking it out dusting it off and pretending that it’s always been a good thing actually.
The impact is already creeping up from the constant infantilisation of teenagers and destroying their autonomy based on falsified premises. Expect more and more articles indicating the discriminatory situation teenagers are put in.
The fact people are being reduced to children makes it so much easier to force people to support fascism - discrimination is what is happening.
Clearly this is about controlling the masses.
A 15 year old isn’t a child.
Trans kids are hurt by measures that block them from finding community and help online that are blocked irl for them.
Fully agree. Their excuses are straight up propaganda based on the government themself manipulating the masses.
The fact is, if both points where respected we wouldnt be in the situation we are now. Its quite sad to be seeing autonomous people being forcefully stripped off their rights, identity and everything.
Next: UK Government to ban children interacting with other people in real life
Most child abuse comes from family members, therefore under-16s will be banned from interacting with their parents and relatives.
Wait what? You want to interact with children? Very suspicious!
Most grooming comes from adults so lets ban children online. That this is a real train of thought even and then gets a political majority says ALOT about y’all politicians.
Pointless, as usual, from the clueless idiots of the UK government.
This is actually insane. There are so many other platforms that should take priority in “child protection” before Vinted and eBay.
The government announced it would ban under-16s accessing social media in June this year, with children prevented from accessing 10 of the biggest platforms. YouTube will also be banned for under-16s, but YouTube Kids - a version of the video-sharing app designed to be safe for children - will not be included in the measures. A complete list of affected platforms has not yet been released, but the government said it would cover those “whose purpose is to enable social interaction and which allow users to post material”. That means platforms that have livestreaming or features that enable the potential for strangers to contact children will also be restricted, which includes gaming sites.
Don’t worry they’re on it. They will ban everything, just in case.
I was actually going to say something about teenagers not needing to be active on sites like eBay. But then I remember my older brother starting his toy collection years ago when he was 13-14 buying toys on eBay,
On a local site as a teen I sold like 20 books or something and lots of unused crap I no longer needed, including phones, PC’s, keyboards … both by mail and face 2 face.
Ignorance is strength
Thats the message the government wants to send; indoctrinating the masses.
