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Re:UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s by drnick1 on Sunday June 14, 2026 @11:49AM (#48528548)
HN is not "social media," in a conventional sense, far from it. For one, it is completely anonymous, at least if you want it to be.
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Re:UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s by davb on Sunday June 14, 2026 @01:49PM (#48530320)
But under Ofcom rules, it is social media if we are to assume that they’ll apply the same scoping as the Online Safety Act does for user-to-user services. I think a lot of comments here assume that only sites like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter/X would be in scope, but I see no reason why they wouldn’t use the same definitions from the OSA (essentially any site where user-to-user communication and content posting takes place, including forums and aggregators).
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Re:UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s by Natfan on Sunday June 14, 2026 @10:37PM (#48535931)
hn is a user-to-user service
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Re:UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s by pyb on Monday June 15, 2026 @06:42AM (#48539367)
If Reddit is "social media", so is HN.
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