The move was due to fears that messaging functions on the platforms allowed strangers to groom children, according to the newspaper. It suggested similar reselling platforms, Depop and Facebook Marketplace, would also be included in the list of banned sites.
I don’t even know what to say to this LOL.
keep the youth in the dark, so they dont gather and protest.
More and more I am grateful for these nutjobs leaving the EU.
Do literally anything besides parenting.
Anyone who’ve used ebay message knows that it is nearly impossible to have a consist communication on it. Their message feature is just so hard to use.
Instagram and Facebook sure. Ban them for everybody.
But ebay?
It’s good that they are pushing this after they released their own findings that the only safety act so far has done nothing to protect kids - the one upside they were claiming.
Can’t wait until they arrive at the only rational solution: to just straight up ban children from existing.
It bears repeating this is not about the children… it’s about ending online anonimity for everybody, one website at a time.
This is so much the wrong approach that i can’t even imagine how fucked up these politicians have to be in their minds to enact such crap.
The people that need to be restricted are the evil guys, not the good guys.
This means that social media platforms have to be held responsible if they do not have effective mechanisms to prevent groomers from harassing minors. (I would cut some leeway for new exploits and such - unforseen problems should not instantly doom a platform, as long as these are fixable)
Isolating your youth from important communication streams will only cause problems the moment that they are of age and completely naive - and this is exactly what this legislation is achieving.
Well maybe we are looking at it backwards. Maybe they are looking for the kids to have a shitty environment where they can’t actually learn life lessons until they are thrust suddenly into it between 16-18 and are easily moldable/groomable, then unable to perform the basic functions and called names.
They can call it the we hate our kids and want them to grow up to hate us bill.
I mean you can block the messages or like set predefined messages only. You can do many things before blocking an entire marketplace. Honestly just sounds like Amazon lobbying
The modern resurgence of fascism is appalling. It’s never fully gone away and now instead of being left in the waste bin of history some brainless fucks are taking it out dusting it off and pretending that it’s always been a good thing actually.
How about banning the government from Xitter instead?
I was actually going to say something about teenagers not needing to be active on sites like eBay. But then I remember my older brother starting his toy collection years ago when he was 13-14 buying toys on eBay,
Ignorance is strength
Thats the message the government wants to send; indoctrinating the masses.
On a local site as a teen I sold like 20 books or something and lots of unused crap I no longer needed, including phones, PC’s, keyboards … both by mail and face 2 face.
contact your local MPs.
Pointless, as usual, from the clueless idiots of the UK government.
The impact is already creeping up from the constant infantilisation of teenagers and destroying their autonomy based on falsified premises. Expect more and more articles indicating the discriminatory situation teenagers are put in.
The fact people are being reduced to children makes it so much easier to force people to support fascism - discrimination is what is happening.
Clearly this is about controlling the masses.
A 15 year old isn’t a child.
Trans kids are hurt by measures that block them from finding community and help online that are blocked irl for them.
Not just trans kids. Children in abusive households as well. As are children in radicalized households. I bring them this up because many don’t care about trans kids
Fully agree. Their excuses are straight up propaganda based on the government themself manipulating the masses.
The fact is, if both points where respected we wouldnt be in the situation we are now. Its quite sad to be seeing autonomous people being forcefully stripped off their rights, identity and everything.
