UK government mulls ban on under-16s using Vinted and eBay
Same as New Labour Mark I: if you have no ideas that anyone likes or wants, because you are a gaggle of unpleasant twats who used your media clout to impose yourselves on the public, then you find that you have nothing to say or do. So, you just start banning and criminalising things instead.
flyingrodent159Can’t really be emphasised enough: nobody likes these awful people, nobody wants what they are selling. They have forced themselves upon everyone and now, they are stuck banning things because they can’t do what they want to do, and they refuse to do anything that people might actually want.
Sean McL11Eerily similar to an early The Thick of It episode where they were on the way to a press conf and had to come up with something to announce ... but it couldn't cost any money. I say that as an insult, but sadly most involved would take it a compliment because they all think they're Malcolm Tucker
Oscar Zeta Gundam9You what, they're right. Terrible things are probably happening in DMs and private messages. This is why they should publish their groupchats right now, logs going as far back as 2015, completely unredacted. This also includes their secret phone that isn't used for family nor work.
Former Pingu Child Actor (BANISHED)7Ok so let me check real quick, Labour bans the young potential victims from using websites, but the perpetrators are not inconveniences at all.
Sylvie626“Bannit Burnham” Except we’re going to stay on X, we’re going to not do anything about the main sources of VAWG etc… “Think of the children”….
evo1963.bsky.social5Yet Labour still uses Twitter.
Sinan Kose45If we were banning things based on the actual material threat to children, we would ban the Labour Party. Who at one point had weekly Labour Right paedophiles outed.
John Dipshit25Lisa Nandy: your child may think they’re getting a vintage Carhartt jacket for a fraction of the retail price. But paedophiles are sowing themselves into the jackets, and we simply can’t allow that
Microplastics Inc.23This is such a perfect Labour policy because it does nothing to stop the supposed perpetrators, but it does lock young people out of yet another area. They love this shit.
Rob 🏳️🌈19“Anything with private messaging can be used for bad purposes” Are we also banning under 16s from writing letters, using phone boxes and saying hello to people in the street?
Heather Herbert is actually quite annoyed18This from a government that won't stop using a platform that has a component the owner refuses to prevent generating sexual images of kids
Gordo!11you could instead just ban access to these apps from Labour Party offices if you’re actually concerned about safety
Microplastics Inc.11This government has gotten so high on its own supply so rapidly it's genuinely incredible. It took the Tories about 10 years in power before they'd completely broken everything and just started doing this kind of mad shit to fill up time.
Former Pingu Child Actor (BANISHED)6God forbid we get some free items for a picture of our feet during a cost of living crisis
John Lubbock4This is what Labour always do: go on a banning spree because they’re fundamentally a paternalistic party that believes people need to be forced into behaving correctly.
Lee Kenny4"people are preying on 16 year olds, so let's make sure that 16 year olds can't participate in society at all to keep them safe" Maybe we should be going after the fucking criminal behaviour instead of preemptively restricting potential victims freedoms?
Just want to point out that the point of banning Under 16's from the things in the UK has absolutely nothing to do with their safety or even with under 16's. The reason the restriction has been put on sites, including EBAY, is so they can track EVERYONE. Please learn and share.
BladeoftheSun23It's not even a policy for the UK Government. It is the Tech Billionaires who want it so they can track, censor and control everyone all of the time. It's not even meant to protect anyone, that's just an acceptable lie they use to get it implemented.
Chris Smith1The Labour Party is authoritarian by instinct. They are not and have never been a liberal party.
CrispinJones1There’s always a Tor browser
The UK government’s position is that 16 year olds should be able to vote but should not be able to use eBay
videah θΔ20I mean really, has this ever happened? Grooming through eBay DM’s?
Skipai Otter3UK Gov: You can't use the internet fully to 16 year olds. Also UK Gov: If war breaks out, you're going to the front lines.
Xanthe van Otterburn 🦦️🍇️1i am increasingly convinced that MPs collectively have a variant of trump’s thing where they just agree with whatever the last advocacy group they talked to said to them
The UK Government, in the person of culture secretary Lisa Nandy MP, is reportedly planning to expand its social media ban for under-16s to cover online marketplaces e.g. eBay, Vinted, Depop, and Facebook Marketplace www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog... (£) #OnlineSafetyAct #techpolicy #childrights
Shell17Meanwhile schools continue to post images of students online, use AI for everything, tell students to use LLM for gcse and A level revision, oh and they allow edtech to be a huge online marketplace of student data. But I’m sure this will help keep children safe
Mark O’Neill 🐻8This is the kind of busy work which Burnham Labour loves. It gives the illusion of important business and dealing with “people’s real concerns”. But it’s just facesitting deckchairs and the real problems are ignored because they are hard or “legitimate concerns”
