this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2026
213 points (98.2% liked)

Technology

89702 readers
4203 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
213
UK Government 'looking seriously' at banning under-16s from Vinted and eBay (www.bbc.com)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by unglueclass23@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
69 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There is a very clear difference between sexual abuse of minors and the ability to communicate. One is bad regardless of how you frame it, the other is dependent on the respective medium and how it is moderated.

Giving a 15 y.o. a platform to discuss stuff with peers, even if there are people out there who might try to groom them, is a good thing. The groomers are the ones that have to be reigned in, not the teens.

[–] bumblebeer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I completely agree and think that the proposal in the article really misses the mark.

However, to claim the issue is moot because "15 year olds are not children" (as some have done in this thread) is patently ridiculous. Taking that argument to its logical conclusion exposes its flaws — which was the point of my previous comment.