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openrightsgroup
Open Rights Group
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org · Apr 29, 2026
Digital checkpoints will crop up all over the Internet after UK MPs backed new powers to expand age verification. The only way to block under-16s is to run checks on everybody. That's millions more people having to hand over personal data to unregulated providers just to access everyday services. Watch now ⬇️ #ageverification #digitalid #socialmedia #socialmediaban #freedomofexpression #childrensbill #privacy #ukpoltics
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openrightsgroup
Open Rights Group
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org · Apr 28, 2026
Papers, please! Digital ID age checks have taken another lunge forward. UK MPs have agreed to new powers to expand age verification across online platforms. More and more everyday web services will be locked behind digital checkpoints, despite the serious privacy and security risks of this system. Read more ⬇️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/papers-please-mps-back-mass-online-digital-id-checkpoints/ #ageverification #digitalid #socialmedia #socialmediaban #freedomofexpression #childrensbill #privacy #ukpoltics #ukpol
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openrightsgroup
Open Rights Group
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org · Apr 28, 2026
“In less than a year, we’ve gone from proposals to check ID for porn to the prospect of checking ID to access social media or unlock everyday features such as livestreams or feeds. These online ID systems put both children and adults’ sensitive data at risk.” 🗣️ @JamesBaker@social.openrightsgroup.org for ORG. #ageverification #digitalid #socialmedia #socialmediaban #freedomofexpression #childrensbill #privacy #ukpoltics #ukpol
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openrightsgroup
Open Rights Group
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org · Apr 28, 2026
The UK Parliament continues to pursue an approach to online safety that doesn't work. The Australian under-16 social media ban has failed to make any difference and people have sought ways around it. Digital ID age checks come at the cost of everyone's privacy and free expression. The math ain't mathing. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/most-australian-teens-admit-social-111400429.html #ageverification #digitalid #socialmedia #socialmediaban #freedomofexpression #childrensbill #privacy #ukpoltics #ukpol
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openrightsgroup
Open Rights Group
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org · Apr 28, 2026
The problem of online harms lies with the underlying business models of social media platforms. Digital ID age checks do nothing to change that. We need to disrupt the advertising-driven business models built on surveillance, profiling and maximising engagement. Sign our petition #BreakBigTech ⬇️ https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/break-big-tech #ageverification #digitalid #socialmedia #socialmediaban #freedomofexpression #childrensbill #privacy #ukpoltics #ukpol
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hbrpgm
hbrpgm
@hbrpgm@adalta.social · Apr 18, 2026

📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/mbF6qRySDGewHPJ7a99Dky 🔗 🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷 🔗 ℹ️

The simplistic ban on social media for minors has failed to address the underlying issue of adolescent exclusion from digital spaces.

#socialmedia #education #bildung #medienkompetenz #socialmediaban

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ilumium
Jan Penfrat
@ilumium@eupolicy.social · Apr 08, 2026
"#Australia says it can’t go it alone on #SocialMediaBan for kids" is the "Help us open Hormuz" of tech policy: Doing the wrong thing despite everyone telling you it ain't the solution and then complaining about others not helping when you fail. Even the Australian rep to the #EU now admits that we need "substantive, enduring change globally to the algorithms and a change to the design behaviours of big tech companies," according to Politico. Sad they only realise it now.
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Robert
@rLok@apobangpo.space · Feb 13, 2026
If anyone’s interested, I’m continuing to update my post on the Aus Teen Social Media Ban as I find new resources (including some early reports of impacts). You can find it here: https://rlok.notion.site/Australia-s-Teen-Social-Media-Ban-is-a-Disaster-2c759d1e5585801a99b3efbdc265ef6e #AusPol #SocialMedia #SocialMediaBan
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Alec Muffett
@alecmuffett@mastodon.social · Feb 07, 2026
‘I’ve lost my friends’: advocacy groups warn Australia’s social media ban risks isolating kids with disabilities | Social media ban | The Guardian https://alecmuffett.com/article/144675 #SocialMediaBan #australia #censorship
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theguardian_world_news
World news | The Guardian
@theguardian_world_news@halo.nu · Jan 28, 2026
UK must ‘move now’ to ban social media for under-16s, says Brianna Ghey’s mother https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/28/under-16-social-media-ban-brianna-ghey-mother-esther-ghey #SocialMediaBan #Children #YoungPeople #MentalHealth #Politics #UkNews
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ilumium
Jan Penfrat
@ilumium@eupolicy.social · Dec 10, 2025
As of today: No social media for Australians under 16. Also as of today: Every Australian under 16 installs a dodgy gratis #VPN that spies on them and sells their digital lives to #adtech sharks. #SocialMediaBan #DigitalRights #AgeVerification #MinorsProtection
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