How do you stop this? It will just encourage then to create fake accounts .
My guess is they'll ask for a valid credit card before allowing users to access the interface for likes and such. Which, IMO anyway, means many less people will be liking things in the UK, not just under-18's. Then some clever kid will find a way to get around it and before you know it the only people liking anything will be kids under 18.
It's like buying your son cigarettes. This shifts the responsibility from the supplier to the enabler (you).
Will we in the near future reflect on this digital period, similar to how we now reflect on the era of dominance of cigarette manufacturers?
As we speak, persuasive design experts, applying behavioural psychology are having wreaking measureable, wide-scale deleterious effects on our youngest generation.
Yes, I agree we should teach our children about these systems of control. At the same time, we should acknowledge that the effects are spanning wide ranges of our population, regardless of age, sex, income class and education level. Our society needs stronger controls to counter decades of psychological and sociological research, designed and funded for offensive purposes (psy-ops).
It’s possible PR will trigger a memetic mass extinction event.
I’d encourage people here who work in marketing, public relations, or social media to seriously consider the systemic effects of what they’re doing.
On the one side we have corporate interests looking to exploit everything they are not barred from exploiting and piously declaring that not exploiting things they are not barred from exploiting is failing in their mission.
On the other side we have governments trying with varying degrees of success to add regulations on this stuff that most lawmakers do not understand.
As a parent, you cannot just rely on the government. Some regulations are good. Some don't go far enough. Some are kind of dumb.
Something like that could be used to filter out such cards, if they were assigned a unique BIN by the bank. As to whether anyone actually _does_ that, I don't know.
[1] The BIN is the first six digits of your card number. It identifies the originating bank, among other things: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bank-identification-num...
Even though a debit card acts like a credit card under most circumstances where your available balance is effectively your "credit" limit but there are ways of telling the difference between a debit/check card and a real credit card.
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/mar/16/uk-online-po...
Also, "All adults own a credit card" is far from a good assumption in general and credit card ownership is actually in decline in the UK so it would be bizarre to tie credit card ownership into this.
Didn’t realize it wasn’t more universal. It will be interesting to see what they come up with.
It's also the only thing which is possible.
It's the streetlight fallacy, in other words: The drunk doesn't know where those damn car keys have gotten to, but they know that the only place the light's good enough to look is under the streetlight, so the keys must be under the streetlight.