2026-01-15 21:45:20

The UK government is advancing a new round of legislation aimed at including minors under the age of 16 within the scope of usage restrictions on mainstream social media platforms. This is an expansion of the "Online Safety Bill" framework. The regulatory agency Ofcom will subsequently gain stronger enforcement powers to ensure platform compliance. This model draws on practices from Australia, which has accumulated experience in protecting teenagers online. However, this plan has also sparked industry discussions—questions about where to find the balance between privacy protection and freedom of speech, who should bear the costs of content moderation, and the long-term impact on decentralized social applications within the Web3 ecosystem, all warrant attention.

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NoodlesOrTokens

· 6h ago

Once again banning minors, this move is quite harsh Will Web3 social become the next breakthrough? Banning those under 16 directly, where will the kids go to play then? Platform review fees ultimately get passed on to users, just the old trick Is the Australian plan really reliable? It seems regulations are getting stricter How to balance privacy and freedom? Anyway, big companies won't back down Isn't this just a disguised form of agent censorship? Who benefits? Ofcom's power is growing larger, centralized platforms are really comfortable Can decentralized social truly avoid a crackdown? It doesn't seem far off It looks like regulators want to completely control public opinion

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ParallelChainMaxi

· 6h ago

Once again, banning young people from accessing the internet—this move is really pointless.

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Tokenomics911

· 6h ago

Coming back with this again? If you’re under 16, you can’t play. Then they can just go to Web3 anonymous social platforms, and regulations won’t be able to reach them.

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PonziWhisperer

· 6h ago

Once again, banning children from playing social media. Are today's politicians starting to implement nanny-style regulation?

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AllInAlice

· 6h ago

Wait, under 16 is prohibited? Then TikTok is probably done for, right?

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CryptoComedian

· 6h ago

Smiling and then crying, the UK is about to kick kids off social media. Now Web3's decentralized applications should be happy. --- Privacy and freedom, whoever dies first, the platform will be the cheap one. In the end, it's still the users who pay the price. --- Australian experience sounds pretty good, but I don't know who will pay for the review costs—probably not the government. --- Banned for under 16? Come on, I bet five bucks this law will have a loophole big enough to dig a digger within three months. --- Data will speak, but who will be responsible for the regulatory costs this time? Major platforms are probably calculating their accounts right now. --- It seems to protect minors, but in reality, it's digging a hole for decentralized social media. Time will prove everything. --- Another UK version of "I do this for you," but in the end, both platforms and users get cut.

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