A proposed legislative amendment to attempt to ban under 16s in the UK from common messaging services, sharing family photos, using Wikipedia, and doing much else online, by imposing age assurance on everyone

Updated 2026-01-19 : the amendment has been amended , to give the Secretary of State some discretion over which services are in scope: “regulated user-to-user services” shall have the meaning given to it in the Online Safety Act 2023, subject to any modification, addition or exclusionas the Secretary of State may specify in regulations made by statutory instrument under this subsection .” Earlier…