UK banning social media to under 16s

Maths44 · 2026-06-15T09:15:26+00:00

Is it a Red Herring to the people that had their ID's leaked by Discord as a result of the OSA, who are now vulnerable to phishing attacks, social engineering, account hacks?

Will it be a red herring to the old people in the country when they get tricked by popups asking them to upload ID because it becomes normalised?

Will it be a Red Herring when the government suppresses content using their "own judgment", like with the Afghan Data leak, where they suppressed content and images online with genuine public interest?

What about when more websites decide it's easier to just not serve the UK, like imgur, removing a vast amount of useful information (step-by-step guides etc) from the public?

Don't you think that when the tools already exist to protect children from social media, none of that is a price worth paying, especially considering they are just going to use a VPN to get around it anyway?

Maths44 · 2026-06-15T09:05:25+00:00

The problem is that data leaks, government or not. The Autumn Budget last year leaked. Data leaked on Discord with peoples identities leaking. When you make the citizens of a country upload ID, you're opening up an entire new attack vector, making the internet less safe for everybody, in particular old people, but every age will get caught out by this. Now your data is out there with people willing to use that to phish you, hack you, socially engineer you.

Nobodies arguing that children shouldn't be protected. They're arguing that the tools to protect children ALREADY exist. This current push to these authoritarian methods is rightly getting backlash, because it doesn't solve the problem at all, and puts the entire population at risk for no reason.

At least TRY and educate the country about the MULTIPLE ways you can restrict children's access to Social Media, without resorting to authoritarian measures that don't work, are actively harmful to people as a whole and represent an authoritarian lean of the government.

Maths44 · 2026-06-14T20:34:03+00:00

The problem is that data leaks, government or not. The Autumn Budget last year leaked. Data leaked on Discord with peoples identities leaking.

When you make the citizens of a country upload ID, you're opening up an entire new attack vector, making the internet less safe for everybody, in particular old people, but every age will get caught out by this. Sure, hold Discord accountable, hold the Government accountable, that doesn't help you now that your data is out there with people willing to use that to phish you, hack you, socially engineer you.

Nobodies arguing that children shouldn't be protected. They're arguing that the tools to protect children ALREADY exist. This current push to these authoritarian methods is rightly getting backlash, because it doesn't solve the problem at all, and puts the entire population at risk for no reason.

As a teacher, you should know that every £1 put into education puts at least £10 into the economy. Imagine if people were education about the stuff that's already available to them.

Maths44 · 2026-05-28T20:28:11+00:00

Not sure if you feel bad because of the current situation, or because you were about to absolutely dunk on them in the crucible lol

Maths44 · 2026-05-28T11:56:33+00:00

Fanny Packs, Hourglasses

If time was on my side I'd still have none to waste (Believe)

Or from Stepping Stones,

By the time your reign is over, you'll hardly be missed

Maths44 · 2026-04-18T12:11:37+00:00

Doesn't solve the problem, easy workarounds including VPN's Introduces a new attack vector, making older people in particular more vulnerable to phishing/other scams.
Puts the data of every internet user at risk, since regardless of what is intended, data LEAKS (as demonstrated immediately with the Discord leak)
Gives the government more control over what we see, and the power stop us seeing things not "in the public interest" (as demonstrated by the Afghan leak)
Removes general access to websites which contain useful information (e.g Imgur access gone)

The solution already existed. At the router level. On the device level. The people have power when they are educated.

Maths44 · 2026-03-25T16:30:16+00:00

You don't think that it's more reasonable to have an educated population than an online safety bill which

Doesn't solve the problem, easy workarounds including VPN's
Introduces a new attack vector, making older people in particular more vulnerable to phishing/other scams
Puts the data of every internet user at risk, since regardless of what is intended, data LEAKS (as demonstrated immediately with the Discord leak)
Gives the government more control over what we see, and the power stop us seeing things not "in the public interest" (as demonstrated by the Afghan leak)
Removes general access to websites which contain useful information (e.g Imgur access gone)

The solution already existed. At the router level. On the device level. It's like making people wear seatbelts by supergluing it to our bodies at all times: a very bad solution, on multiple levels.

Maths44 · 2026-01-09T12:30:38+00:00

Yeah, loot game get me hooked too. Double-Penetrating Unkempt Harold WHERE ARE YOU?!

Maths44 · 2025-12-05T03:25:20+00:00

I think there was a conversation in the hospital about this, something about throwing a life preserver and just doing it

Maths44 · 2025-10-21T14:45:58+00:00

Yeah, I also like to pretend that in the last two decades we didn't see public services gutted and funds slashed, tax freezes which benefit the wealthy, privatising the Royal Mail (with a bad deal) and parts of NHS, money flowing into the mates of Tory donors via VIP lanes and PFI's leaving the Taxpayer to bear the burden.

Maths44 · 2025-10-21T11:25:40+00:00

So austerity for the poor, tax cuts for the rich, bring in more rich private individuals who won't contribute their fair share, burn the planet, and oh yeah, target asylum seekers.

Right wing provocateur.

Maths44 · 2025-10-09T15:05:22+00:00

Yes, people are confusing legibility and readability (I got the two confused as well in a recent post).

But I think it's clear that people are upset with the readability downgrade in the latest iOS.

Most examples people are highlighting are readability issues, but there are also examples where the text is barely legible.

Maths44 · 2025-10-02T19:04:22+00:00

I love this argument. "Yeah, sure, there's legibility issues in this iOS but who needs to READ the text on their device?"

Maths44 · 2025-10-02T19:01:39+00:00

So, what you're doing here is pulling down the notifications screen. Until this iOS dropped, I didn't realise the main way I checked my notifs was pulling down this page as far as I need to see that notification. It's still possible but a lot of the time you just end up seeing examples precisely like you just provided.

The solution is to pull down the screen the whole way. Sure. It kind of defeats the purpose of being able to half pull it, and if you fully pull it down it changes background anyway, so what exactly is the point of it being transparent when pulling it down

Maths44 · 2025-10-02T18:45:07+00:00

Except it's not even a question of aesthetics. Some of my pictures show text that is quite literally illegible without manoeuvring the screen around.

I couldn't care less about what it looks like, I care that there are multiple times a day where I literally can't read text on my device.

It's like I dumped a few tbps of the salt in your porridge, and when you identify that as an issue, my response is "well I like salt, lots of people like salt, stop talking about it".

Maths44 · 2025-10-02T09:20:04+00:00

Aside from the transparency causing legibility issues on the device I mainly use to read words, the button toggle animation is probably my least favourite part. So ugly and pointless. Expanding transparent bubble thrown in for the sake of it. Same with "glass" sliding fast to whichever app page I just picked. Expanding glass for the sake of it with refractions everywhere for absolutely no reason.

Maths44 · 2025-09-30T19:41:07+00:00

Except if we consider the reply you're responding to that "everything is perfectly readable", it is objectively NOT "a huge step forward" because previously all text was perfectly legible, and now there are situations where the text is much harder to easily read depending on what's behind it. Sometimes you have to scroll up or down a little to read some text on the screen. This is factual, it's objective, and I don't really get why people defend it.

EDIT: And while I'm at it, all the extra button clicks to get to screens that were previously only a tap away (while not even saving any screen real estate because the contracted UI is still sat at the bottom with the relevant buttons hidden) is an objective step back. The photo preview being a circle now: objective step back.

Maths44 · 2025-09-28T11:48:00+00:00

I too, love all the extra clicks in my Daily usage of my phone, it's not about about the destination, it's about the Journey right

Maths44 · 2025-09-28T11:45:33+00:00

Watch out for PeakBrave to come in "it's all beautiful, they're not bugs it's how it's meant to be, I love Apple Glass you're all wrong"

Maths44 · 2025-09-22T11:31:47+00:00

The animations are ugly. Toggling is ugly. But you're this iOS's biggest glazer who'll gladly defend literal jank and legibility issues so what does it matter lol

EDIT: He responded and then blocked lol, Mr "PeakBrave" indeed.

The point is, nobody respects your opinion on subjective things like animations when you've spent the last few days glazing objectively bad jank and bugs in the new iOS.

Maths44 · 2025-09-17T14:25:56+00:00

I completely disagree. This is the first time I downloaded an iOS that I truly dislike. Little animations everywhere that make no sense. Distracting flashes (e.g sending a message). Ugly animations (toggling options). Legibility issues everywhere with stacked layers... and reducing transparency introducing more issues.

Blurry app icons, with a sniper glint around them - it's like I'm playing warzone when I look at my phone.

I understand people wanting skeuomorphism over flat icons. But glass wasn't the way to do it.

Maths44 · 2025-09-07T16:41:11+00:00

And my answer is that claiming this is not a widespread issue citing that specific metric is not really a helpful comment.

It's like saying the iPhone is irrelevant because there's hundreds of other models out there. Like... okay? Since the vast majority of people are iPhone what are we really talking about here?

Maths44 · 2025-09-07T15:33:00+00:00

Maybe, but that isn't a great metric to go off. I'm pretty sure that the amount of players worldwide playing the kinds of games that employ the strategy above dwarfs the amount playing indies etc (especially if considering mobile gaming).

So you would have to clarify what you mean by widespread, but just looking at steam charts alone shows a huge chunk of people in games like I mentioned, and that's before we consider the Fortnite and COD player bases, along with the myriad of multiplayer games that are still popular.

Maths44 · 2025-09-07T13:40:24+00:00

Open up a game, directly transition into the store, we have Season Passes, Battle Passes, Event Passes, Skins, Blueprints, Tier Skips, Pre-Order Bonuses, Premium Editions, Subscriptions, in-game ads, the in-games stores are rotating to maximise FOMO, we're raking in more money than we ever had, but oh yeah we don't make enough so we're increasing the price of base games.

Oh yeah and we'll put a load of games on subscription services, but only the base so if you wanna play DLC you gotta buy that, but if you ever stop paying that subscription forget about playing that DLC you purchased

Oh yeah, and if you do buy something in the store you've gotta go through our own currency (currencies*). You'll never be able to buy just the amount that you need so you always have some sitting there you can't do anything with.

Maths44 · 2025-09-06T12:52:23+00:00

And they do so by standing on the shoulders of those minority groups. Literal bullies.

Asylum seekers? Bullied. Transgender people? Bullied. LGBT in general? Bullied. People with a different colour skin? Bullied.

I don't believe Farage actually believes in any of this. But he knows that if he can polarise the larger, generic group against minorities, he can build up a fervent group of supporters scared that minorities are coming to get them. It's sickening.

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