Coming from a Brit, that facial recognition dribble was something that came up maybe once and it hasn't really been heard of since. The social media ban for under 16's keeps coming up, mostly because parents don't want to parent (or blame themselves for not noticing mental health issues) and teachers complaining, but with how tech illiterate our government is it probably wouldn't hold water if it went through.
I mean we've had a case of an MP watching NSFW content during parliament and multiple cases of MPs using work devices for personal usage, those are just cases I can think of from the little time I've been paying attention to politics.
These MPs are mostly from my parents generation and my parents are in their late 50's, they literally grew up with less than 10 TV channels, that's the generation trying to "ban" social media.
If anything even went through it might take up to decade or more, our government is preoccupied with the cost of living crisis and the amount of money they need to help the NHS. If a 13 year old is on Instagram now, the governments ideas probably won't effect them, only Instagram's own ideas.
The only problem I have with your sentiment is that governments are known to use made-up issues to distract from real ones that are hard to fix. After all, to my understanding, the UK banned "extreme pornography" which includes probably 100% of what I've ever written. I don't know that it applies to text (it probably does not), but I hope you get my point. Governments don't act like rational people. They act like people who respond to their house catching fire by taking a selfie with the hottest (pun not intended) fireman that shows up.
I don't know much about the "extreme pornography" ban but considering what I've seen in published literature, stuff with no age restriction, I can only guess written stuff got left out unless it was about a real person. The wording heavily implies that it's anything that could feasibly risk someone's life, fanfic about a fictional character wouldn't apply in that case.
About the made up issues, the UK's former government's made up issue of choice was mass immigration, if you heard anything about the Tories and small boats, you probably heard about Bibby Stockholm and Rwanda.
The current governments main issues currently is Winter Fuel Payments and National Insurance rises, surprisingly they don't have many made up issues in the works cause they got dumped with a horrible economy and the Tories were voted out because of that economy. Labour literally won because the Tories cocked up so badly that even life long Tory voters went for the option that would rid them of the Tories.
The current economic situation puts most internet related bills on hold because the main group the government listens to are the elderly and the elderly only really care about their cold homes and NHS waiting lists, not their grandchildren's mental health or physical health (there was a bill to slowly raise the smoking/vaping age to eradicate it, but it fell through).
I get your point though, the government is unpredictable and unreliable, the Downing Street lockdown parties for example, they should never of happened, but thankfully nothing goes though parliament fast, I'm hearing about things that were brought up originally when I was a little kid and edited bills are only just being considered, like the Assisted Dying bill.
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