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Re:UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s by philipallstar on Monday June 15, 2026 @12:34AM (#48536633)
This is like saying "people using cars to get places is really about oil".
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Re:UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s by theultdev on Monday June 15, 2026 @01:38PM (#48544593)
if it was about kids they would have mandated parental controls.

not universal account verification.

people are stupid now though, so I guess they took their shot.

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Re:UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s by philipallstar on Monday June 15, 2026 @03:44PM (#48546091)
How can the system tell if someone's a parent or not.
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Re:UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s by theultdev on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @12:27PM (#48557795)
The system can't. That's the beauty of it.

It's up for the parents to enable it for their kids.

Just mandate that certain parental features are AVAIALABLE to parents.

It's up to the parents to parent their kids. Not the government. But if you want to mandate something, mandate tools for the parents.

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Re:UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s by philipallstar on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @04:45PM (#48561798)
But how does the system know that someone's a parent who should be able to access the parental features?
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Re:UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s by theultdev on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @11:04AM (#48571522)
It doesn't need to.

Parents know who they are. THEY force their kids to use a child account with their parental account linked.

The same way every other parental control system works, whether it's Youtube, Netflix, iOS, Xbox, etc.

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