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.

  • ZarxraxEnglish
    3·
    2 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.

    • 9point6English
      1·
      2 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