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The government’s Education Secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has revealed that – regardless of the outcome from their current consultation on a proposed internet Social Media ban for children under the age of 16 (here<\/a>) – they will still “impose some form of age or functionality restrictions<\/em>” even if they stop short of a full ban.<\/p>\n

At present the Children\u2019s Wellbeing and Schools Bill<\/strong><\/a> (CWSB) looks highly likely to make it into law with an amendment that effectively gives ministers the power to implement a ban in the future, albeit with the exact approach still being somewhat dependent upon the outcome of the Government’s related consultation (here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

However, the Education Secretary has stressed the importance of making sure that, whatever they decide, actually “works<\/em>“, which is a particularly difficult thing to achieve given the diversity and complexity of the internet (i.e. there are many ways to get around Age Verification measures). Not to mention the risk of pushing younger users into underground groups and services, away from the big social media platforms.<\/p>\n

Equally, making access to common online services too restrictive could inhibit its use by adults and risks significant unintended consequences, particularly if restrictive rules are applied to website and online services of all sizes with user-to-user platforms (e.g. smaller sites \/ forums and services often have no viable way of adding Age Verification). The result could be censorship by the backdoor of excessive legal liability.<\/p>\n

At the same time many adults may be uncomfortable with having their access restricted from accessing communication \/ chat services until such time as they agree to share their personal biometric or financial data with often unknown, unfamiliar and unregulated third-party Age Verification organisations.<\/p>\n

Olivia Bailey, Junior Education Minister, told the Commons (BBC News<\/a>):<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Let us be clear: the status quo cannot continue. We are consulting on the mechanism and that is the right thing to do.<\/p>\n

But we are clear that under any outcome we will impose some form of age or functionality restrictions for children under 16.<\/p>\n

I can also confirm that consideration of restrictions such as curfews will be in addition not instead of this.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bailey added that the government is also seeking to tackle addictive features and harmful algorithmically-driven content (e.g. endless scrolling), although she acknowledged that it could take another year or more before such changes in regulation are formally introduced after the CWSB achieves Royal Assent (becomes law).<\/p>\n

All of this is before we even touch on the potentially far-reaching and unintended consequences of potentially enforcing age verification on Virtual Private Networks<\/strong> (VPN), which are also legitimate tools for businesses, journalists and to help protect people (security) when abroad or on public networks etc. Many such VPNs can be deeply integrated into modern protection and network optimisation systems, often acting seamlessly in the background, thus a blanket requirement risks being extraordinarily disruptive.<\/p>\n

The reality is that, whatever the government decides, children who go seeking access to such systems and content will always find a way to circumvent any measures that are introduced \u2013 just as they always have done. Instead, it often ends up being the innocent and harmless online services and security systems that could be hurt the most by the sledgehammer approach to age-gated internet access.<\/p>\n

So far many questions remain unanswered on this topic, which makes it difficult to know what the impacts will be before we have the detail. The only certainty is that MPs are historically pretty poor at understanding how the internet works under the hood, which often results in problems when it comes to implementation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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