Is the online security rule protect the mental health of the young people?
These changes lead to some political comments, even a request to destroy the bill that has issued more than 400,000 signatures. The Act itself passed by 2023, a document out of the Law has been moved, that is why the public interest is renovated as other new laws.
The law enables the responsibility of social media and child protection companies and adults to the injury of their user safety while there are their platform. Failure to comply with these Laws may result in capital fees, company managers are locked up and even banned sites in the UK.
But what real changes did the action be done? How should children and youth protect? Also, what is most important, what is evidence that these changes will protect mental health?
Removes illegal content
The Act at December 2024 requires that all companies take action against illegal content shared in their platforms or illegal transactions and the work that occurs through their platforms and services.
The illegal content of the Act includes images of sexual abuse, illegal drug trafficking or weapons, government-funded disforming.
A The study was conducted by Savanta Mental Emetion Foundation Earlier this year, find out that 68% of young people (Aged 16-21) have seen what is hurtful or interrupting online. This does not mean that there are only harmful ways of material children. Viewing violent or abusive content can also cause mental tribulation and even abuse, especially for young people.
‘Trapped media’ is well cut off, especially following painful profile events. In 2021, researchers in Boston University were found That follows school shots, people who view them overcrowding or annoying content, including bright videos of their shooting, may have PTSD symptoms and other mental disorders.
The new law makes the functions of social organizations, technical firms and Internet providers to make the risk assessment of the shared content and take appropriate steps to progress.
The validity of age
Putting on orus in companies to remove illegal content is not the only end of new rules. The Law also requires platforms to protect children from viewing potential content, but may be dangerous to creating minds. For example, pornographic websites are now responsible for verifying age before reaching clear content.
Pornography, especially pornography or difficult pictures, can damage children’s mental health. It can lead to the efforts of emotional relationships and to build relationships, and the sexual understanding and sexual roles in relationships. Expression of Pornography Elderly Makes Children Many opportunities to improve the symptoms of anxiety And still risk of sexual abuse as it shared clear pictures with small children, the normal tactic for the animals. The average children are first expressed in online sexually-year-old pictures, 15% of children under 10 years.
From July 2025, UK websites Hosting pornography should secure users before allowing them to achieve clear content. It is the old age verification laws causing a backlash. New rules say that as users need to ensure their age by introducing the ID, or using other tools such as the facial recognition software, there is the risk of data violation of data or privacy threats.
The use of social media
In addition to pornographic sites, there are some OneSsure on social networking sites to look at risk – check the content from their platforms and if it is harmful to children, to force the right age. Most of the 10 years over 10 years of presence of social media by the most popularity of YouTube and WhatsApp:
