Young children should absolutely not have a phone, unless I suppose it’s completely locked down to chat apps and the tracking I suppose…

They’d risk getting blocked in the UK if they did that. Sure users could get around that using a VPN, but not everyone uses one so in general that’d reduce their userbase and as such their revenue. Shareholders sure won’t like that either.

I hate reddit as much as the other guy, but I’m not sure what other course of action they have if they are by law required to do this.

What this new law means for fediverse users and servers hosted in the UK is still to be found out.