Member

I want to speak briefly to amendment 9, which I will not move, but which deals with age checks. Whatever the nominal age might be, it is irrelevant if nobody actually enforces it. The Online Safety Act 2023 says that social media companies should enforce their own age limits, but that is often done through very simple methods of self-declaration that are easy to circumvent. There is a question about how we interpret the wording of that Act, which says that age checks must be done “consistently”.