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What new âpolicing and regulatingâ powers will officials seek? </p><p dir="ltr">FIRE has <a href="https://expression.fire.org/p/the-papers-please-era-of-the-internet">warned</a> for some time now that the rapidly advancing era of age-gating teens from the internet would bring with it a lot more baggage than just restrictions on kids. For one, it will force <em>adults</em> to participate in a vast identity verification scheme, threatening both privacy and anonymous speech. As I explained earlier, weâre moving toward a â<a href="https://expression.fire.org/p/the-papers-please-era-of-the-internet">papers, please</a>
690â online landscape, where vital venues of public discussion might now only be open to those who are willing to trust tech companies and the third-party verification apps they use with information that can eliminate their anonymity online, and the governments responsible for mandating the collection of that information.</p><article data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="2e283619-ee82-4e86-986f-d6805306914f" data-embed-button="node" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:node.entity_embed" class="align-right embedded-entity" data-langcode="en" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]"><div class="inner type--node"> 691 <div class="media-outer"> 692 693 <picture loading="lazy" width="640" height="360" class="media"> 694 <source srcset="/sites/default/files/styles/640x360/public/2023/09/Social%20Media%20Age%20Verification%20%281%29.jpg.webp?h=d1cb525d&itok=XRBLFHPB 1x" media="(max-width: 767px)" type="image/webp" width="640" height="360"> 695 <source srcset="/sites/default/files/styles/833x469/public/2023/09/Social%20Media%20Age%20Verification%20%281%29.jpg.webp?h=d1cb525d&itok=n9Rs-z-O 1x" media="(min-width: 768px)" type="image/webp" width="833" height="469"> 696 <img loading="lazy" width="640" height="360" src="/sites/default/files/styles/640x360/public/2023/09/Social%20Media%20Age%20Verification%20%281%29.jpg.webp?h=d1cb525d&itok=XRBLFHPB" alt="Adolescent child using a mobile device"> 697 698 </picture> 699 700 701 702 </div> 703 704 <header> 705 <h2 class="title"><span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">FIRE statement on age-based restrictions on social media access</span> 706</h2> 707 <h3 class="eyebrow"></h3> 708 </header> 709 710 <div class="description"> 711 <div class="inner wysiwyg-content"> 712 <p></p><p> 713 Lawmakers across the country are advancing legislation intended to protect minors from harms allegedly caused by social media use, but the First Amendment prohibits the government from swinging an ax when a scalpel might suffice. 714 </p> 715 <p> 716 <a href="/research-learn/fire-statement-age-based-restrictions-social-media-access" class="arrow-link"><span class="inner-text"> 717 Read More 718 </span></a> 719 </p> 720 </div> 721 </div> 722</div> 723 724</article><p dir="ltr">But there comes with it another threat, exactly the one Nandy now proudly advocates: The door was never going to just open to under-16 bans. Once legislators and regulatory authorities get their foot in that door, theyâre going to see exactly how far they can force it open.</p><p dir="ltr">âIf we were in a situation where we were saying our town centres are now so unsafe that weâve decided that every child is going to have to stay in their bedrooms, people would rightly be up in arms,â Nandy <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/30/lisa-nandy-social-media-ban-online-safety-culture-secretary">said</a>. âHow have we got to a point where weâre saying these social media sites are so harmful and dangerous that we cannot conceive of any way of protecting our children except to remove them altogether? This ends now.â</p><p dir="ltr">Itâs quite bizarre that Nandy is speaking as if the UK does not <em>already</em> enforce a very âactiveâ policing of the internet, both via regulatory powers and criminal law. Thousands are <a href="https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/05/15/britains-police-are-restricting-speech-in-worrying-wayshttps://www.economist.com/britain/2025/05/15/britains-police-are-restricting-speech-in-worrying-ways">arrested</a> annually by police for their social media posts under broad laws targeting âgrossly offensiveâ or âindecentâ communications. </p><p dir="ltr">Alongside this aggressive policing of speech, British regulators have recently amassed increasing power to target speech and platforms under the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/online-safety-act-explainer/online-safety-act-explainer">Online Safety Act</a>, which âprotects children and adults online.â Platforms that fail to take appropriate action under the Act face fines up to £18 million or 10% of their qualifying worldwide revenue, whichever is greater. And platforms are not only required to take down illegal content when flagged, but must âthink about how they design their sites to reduce the likelihood of them being usedâ to host such illegal content. The kind of âillegal contentâ the regulator Ofcom polices doesnât just include fraud or drug sales, but âhateâ and âterrorismâ too â two concepts which the UK interprets <a href="https://www.hampshire-pcc.gov.uk/police-and-crime-commissioner-donna-jones-responds-to-video-published-on-twitter-involving-hampshire-police-officers-regarding-alleged-hate-crime?">very</a>, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/palestine-action-protest-labour-party-conference-arrests-b3057123.html">very broadly</a>. </p><p dir="ltr">Earlier this summer, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport also <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/plans-for-prominence-of-trusted-news-sources-on-social-media-alongside-measures-to-reform-public-service-media-in-the-uk">released</a> plans to potentially require social media platforms to augment their algorithms to ensure government-approved sources like the BBC are âmore likely to be at the top of peopleâs social media feeds when they search for news.â Nandy said of the proposal, âIt is vital that we make sure that people have better access to trusted and accurate news and that our regulated public service media is seen and heard in the fierce battle against mis and disinformation.â</p><p dir="ltr">If this level of input and power over online speech, along with a new under-16 ban, is only the beginning of the UKâs âactive interventionist state,â itâs hard to imagine where it will go next.</p><p dir="ltr">Alarmingly, itâs not just in the UK where officials are making clear that they arenât content to employ existing speech laws against online expression or regulate only how children interact with social media. Just look at Turkey, where officials are <a href="https://www.fire.org/news/blogs/free-speech-dispatch/its-end-internet-anonymity-we-know-it-and-i-dont-feel-fine">threatening</a> new requirements that people link a national ID number to their social media accounts so the government can easily identify speakers. Or Germany, where Chancellor Friedrich Merz is once again <a href="https://dig.watch/updates/german-chancellor-friedrich-merz-faces-criticism">pushing</a> for a âreal nameâ rule for social media users and swatting down objections that it would pose a threat to free speech.</p><p dir="ltr">We are in a new era of regulating who can speak online, and how. 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