[big85]

About 2 million adults in the UK don't have government-issued photo ID. Certainly many 16-17 year olds will have trouble verifying their age. They're blocking huge sectors of the UK population from being able to use the internet normally.

[rimeice]

Use *social media normally. Social media != The Internet. They’ll be able to use 99.9999% of the internet just fine.

[rahimnathwani]

YouTube is part of the ban.

[em-bee]

so nobody can watch youtube without an account? that's going to go down well...

[ilovecake1984]

Nobody needs to use social media though.

Really they should just torch the lot.

[hactually]

you don't use YouTube?

[rolymath]

The world was fine before youtube, it's not the end of the world. It's full of fake education who won't take responsibility by claiming they're "just entertainment".

Realistically, the kids will find their way around the ban.

[inigyou]

Nobody needs to. It's an addictive cancer just like TikTok.

[IshKebab]

It's not. Tiktok is pure time wasting fluff definitely, but YouTube is a mix of that and genuinely great content.

Go and watch 3blue1brown and then tell me it's addictive cancer.

[ilovecake1984]

I use YouTube, but only watch stuff I SEARCH for or from people I have subscribed to. No watch next BS.

If you have self control you can avoid the social media element of it.

YouTube demonetisation tends to act as a reasonable steward on the platform, but it does need to be strengthened.

I.e. make YouTube responsible as the publisher for any video with over 100k views. This would be totally doable.

[womble2]

Doesn't matter, if this goes through as is you will have to submit photo-id and/or facial scans linking you to a google account in order to watch any youtube other than the kids section.