🇬🇧 To clear up any confusion:

There are TWO bans on under 16's access to social media in the UK. The first is at the app level and this comes into play next year. It will require selected social media apps to prompt for age verification when accessing them.

The second more insidious one is happening much sooner. This one is the 'nudity detection' feature and this one operates on device level. It will require every adult to show a form of ID in order to operate their phones and tablets without restrictions/monitoring.

The voluntary deadlines to tech companies to implement this is around early September this year.

If Apple, Google and others don’t implement device-level monitoring by then, the government has said it will bring forward legislation to make it mandatory.

People saying "Just use a VPN!" are not understanding how this works.

There is also a possibility that if they get their way with minimal pushback, the OS level ID requirement could eventually expand to include laptops and PCs.

It would be more complicated and take longer to implement, but it's not impossible.

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