Authored by Kit Knightly via OffGuardian,
The United Kingdom already has one of the most controlled digital environments in the world.
We have a social media ban for children in place, requiring everyone to scan their ID or otherwise verify their age to use social media. They require age verification for "adult content". There are proposals and legislation pending to implement "device level nudity detection", introduce a "social media curfew" for teenagers, and we already lead the world in social media-related arrests.
But, according to the Culture and Technology Secretary Lisa Nandy, we are far from done.
Last week, at the Labour Party Conference, Nandy gave a speech hailing the UK's "first in the world" social media ban (it's not actually the first, except by some very specific metric, but whatever). She told the conference [emphasis added]:
[T]he world wide web - that created [sic] by Tim Berners Lee, to share knowledge, not exploitation - has revolutionis
