Britain may have a look at additional measures to guard younger youngsters from the dangers of social media within the new 12 months following the introduction of recent on-line security legal guidelines targeted on youngsters and the elimination of unlawful content material, a minister stated.

The On-line Security Act, which turned regulation in October, requires platforms like Meta’s Instagram and Alphabet’s YouTube to strengthen controls round unlawful content material and age-checking measures.

Main platforms together with Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat require customers to be at the least 13 years previous.

A Bloomberg report stated the British authorities was finding out a crackdown on social media entry for youngsters beneath the age of 16, together with potential bans.

Science Minister Andrew Griffith stated on Friday that the federal government all the time sought to discover a stability between vital freedoms and placing dad and mom in management.

“If there’s a session in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later, and as I say that’s hypothesis at this level, taking a look at how one can proceed to guard minors versus the liberty of the web for adults is all the time one thing {that a} wise authorities I feel would have a look at,” he instructed Occasions Radio.

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