I feel like the law should change to prevent children from having devices that can freely access the internet. i.e. they can still access devices but not own them. Then its about parental supervision. We're only here because parents give their kids smartphones with zero oversight.
i feel like thats the problem, theres no way to effectively ban kids from the internet without a violation of privacy. i think preventing kids under 13-14 is very easy, but when it comes to teenagers i do think preventing them will only push them to find illegal ways to purchase smart phones and i think that may cause issues due to teen rights and freedom of speech. punishing parents would probably be insane and impossible to do.
actually who knows mabye there are privacy ensuring methods to verifying ages but the problem right now is how simple the frameworks are that will only end up killing internet culture in the uk, not protect kids.
i think one of the effective ways to tackle kids being harmed on the internet is a cultrual push not through laws. im not even against some level of laws though but as it stands the goverments currents framkework is just insane and didnt even take a second of thought or nuance.
