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.

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.

  • Zarxrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    17 hours ago

    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.

    • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      16 hours ago

      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

      • deliriousdreams@fedia.io
        2·
        10 hours ago

        My biggest problem with that is the fact that lots of platforms that are popular are pushing AI slop. I like the curation algorithm because in a lot of cases it’s one of the few ways to remove AI music or video from the list.

        I don’t think kids should miss out on the discovery features of a service just because they’re kids. I have found that most of the information that would be collected for this shouldn’t require more than a signed in account (where a lot of these services go above and beyond to track you across the internet).

        It’s fine to collate data I’m already giving you by using the service and having an account (music I upvoter, channels I subscribe to etc) to provide me with discovery features without the need to know when I had my tonsils removed and who did my first prostate exam.