Facebook & Instagram to Block Under-18 From Seeing Adult Content

It was claimed that, as early as next year, Facebook and its Instagram photo-sharing platform will block under-18 from viewing sexual content.

The social networking site will ban multiple types of sexually explicit content for users around the globe as part of the policy change.

Reportedly, the social networking giant consulted 25 experts before considering the change, including LGBT, diversity and free speech activists, as well as child safety campaigners.

According to the study, adolescents would be prohibited from watching sexualized ads, fictional gender images, and artistic nudity or sexual activities portrayals.

Nevertheless, ads, which includes implicit sexual activity and pictures of artworks showing sexual activity, must remain visible to adults.

But the restrictions that are due on both platforms will rely solely on adolescents entering their own ages, making it easy for them to lie and view inappropriate content anyway.

This could also prove fruitless with more than 60,000 UK Facebook users under the age of 12 when the age limit is 13.

Under the new policy, it seems that underage users will get a message of error if they announce that they are under-18 and seek to load sexual content.

The new policy will also not extend to pornographic images and video explicitly instructional or nude photos of breastfeeding mothers or survivors of cancer.

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