World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days ago

UK plans midnight social media curfew for 16- and 17-year-olds

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UK plans midnight social media curfew for 16- and 17-year-olds

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World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days ago

New social media curfews and crackdown on addictive features to better protect 16- and 17-year-olds online

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Default overnight curfews and addictive features to be switched off automatically to protect 16 and 17-year-olds on social media

cross-posted from: https://feddit.online /c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk/p/1830144/uk-plans-midnight-social-media-curfew-for-16-and-17-year-olds

cross-posted from: https://feddit.online /c/uk@feddit.online/p/1830143/uk-plans-midnight-social-media-curfew-for-16-and-17-year-olds

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They justify it as being just a change in the default settings and therefore reversible (despite most people not changing default settings), but I don’t trust them not to tighten the screws of the Online Safety Act further as time goes on.

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