UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts

Re:UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social ... by munksbeer on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @01:00PM (#48558322)

You are really so naive to think that banning the big public social media sites is going to stop children from seeing bad things on the internet?

I promise you, within a few years there is going to be an underground social media network or sites that are harder to monitor, don't give a shit what the UK government thinks, and definitely don't care about children's safety at all.

They probably already exist.

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Re:UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social ... by sjducb on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @01:20PM (#48558642)

You’re taking my argument to it’s extreme and giving it the least charitable interpretation.

I want it to not be normal to spend all day on TikTok. If something is illegal and underground then it’s much easier for me as a parent to ban it for my kids

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Re:UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social ... by munksbeer on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @02:21PM (#48559667)

>I want it to not be normal to spend all day on TikTok

I would like that too, but I genuinely believe these measures are going to make things worse for children, for the reason I explained.

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Re:UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social ... by pseudalopex on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @02:11PM (#48559494)

> You’re taking my argument to it’s extreme and giving it the least charitable interpretation.

No. You believed it would be effective was the most charitable interpretation.

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Re:UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social ... by sjducb on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @02:26PM (#48559771)

I think there will be a 50%-80% reduction in social media use by teens. This is good enough.

There will always be people who get round the ban.

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Re:UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social ... by munksbeer on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @03:47PM (#48560912)

What happens when teens lives start getting properly ruined because they end up on the dark web or other sites? What about when the first teen commits suicide because they were lured into a honeypot vpn and their data used to blackmail?

Will you still be claiming that this is "good enough"?

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Re:UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social ... by iamnothere on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @06:42PM (#48563275)

He doesn’t really care about that, he just wants his life to be a little easier (and to track what the hoi polloi are up to by forcing them to cough up their IDs)

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