"Blocking AI and Pornography"...UK Moves to Strongly Protect Children

Reviewing 'Australia-style social media ban'
Starmer: "As a father of teenage children, I understand the difficulties"

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As pressure mounts to ban social media use by young people under 16, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to announce that the government will step up its measures to protect children online.

According to a summary of local reports, including the UK Daily Mail, on the 16th (local time), Prime Minister Starmer is set to say that, when it comes to children’s issues, no social media platform or internet platform will be allowed to enjoy any form of "immunity."

In the newly announced proposals, the government is considering ways to restrict teenagers’ access to AI chatbots, as well as measures to prevent them from bypassing age-verification systems to access pornography.

The government also plans to consider steps to preserve mobile phone data in tragic cases where online activity is suspected to be linked to a child’s death.

The outlet assessed that the government will carry out advance preparatory work so it can move swiftly if an Australia-style ban on social media for children under 16 is recommended in future consultations on children’s digital welfare. This comes after government officials forced Elon Musk’s X platform to ensure that its Grok AI tool does not respond to requests to generate sexualized images of women and girls.

On the 15th, Prime Minister Starmer said, "As a father of two teenage children, I fully understand the difficulties and worries parents face in trying to keep their children safe online."

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