英国部长 Ian Murray 对议会表示：16岁以下青少年将不能在网络游戏中与陌生人聊天
伦敦 — 英国创意产业、媒体与网络安全部长 Ian Murray 11月2日在议会威斯敏斯特厅的一场辩论中表示，英国16岁以下青少年将不能在网络游戏中与陌生人交谈，也不能进行自我直播；他们仍可与陌生玩家组队游玩，只是不能与对方通话或发消息。
这场辩论由一份反对16岁以下社交媒体禁令的请愿触发，请愿已征集到217,682个签名。Murray 说，政府将通过后续的「功能类法规」把游戏纳入治理范围，覆盖陌生人通讯，并点名 Roblox 是这方面问题最大的平台。对16至17岁青少年，陌生人通讯等功能将默认关闭。
按 Murray 公布的时间表，社交媒体禁令的首批法规将在圣诞休会前提交议会、2027年春季生效；针对游戏内陌生人通讯等具体功能的法规随后出台，目前尚无日期，「陌生人」的定义以及限制语音还是文字聊天也未定。玩家团体 Gamer's Voice 11月3日批评这一计划可能把青少年玩家与他们的游戏社区隔开。
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（来源：英国议会）
UK Minister Ian Murray Tells Parliament Under-16s Will Not Be Able to Talk to Strangers in Online Games
LONDON — Ian Murray, the UK minister for creative industries, media and online safety, told Parliament on November 2 that children under 16 in Britain will lose the ability to talk to strangers in online games and to livestream themselves. They will still be matched with stranger players, he said, but without the ability to communicate with them.
Murray was speaking in a Westminster Hall debate triggered by a petition against the planned under-16 social media ban, which had gathered 217,682 signatures. He said the government would bring gaming into its approach through later feature-specific regulations covering stranger communications, and named Roblox as the biggest problem in this area. For 16- and 17-year-olds, stranger communication will be switched off by default.
Under the timetable Murray set out, the first regulations for the social media ban will be laid before the Christmas recess and take effect in spring 2027; rules on features such as in-game stranger chat will follow, with no date yet set and open questions including how a stranger is defined and whether voice chat, text chat or both are covered. The campaign group Gamer's Voice criticised the plan on November 3, warning it could cut young players off from their gaming communities.
(Source: UK Parliament)
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