Vinted and eBay could beryllium included successful the database of platforms acceptable to beryllium banned for children aged nether 16, the civilization caput has said.
Lisa Nandy said the authorities was "looking seriously" astatine including the retailing websites successful the societal media prohibition "to support children safe".
The UK's societal media prohibition for under-16s is acceptable to travel into unit successful March adjacent year, with children barred from accessing platforms specified arsenic Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat.
In response, eBay said it was looking guardant to "understanding much and continuing to enactment constructively with the government". Vinted said it welcomed "open dialogue" with ministers and the regulator connected the issue.
Asked connected the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme whether the authorities was looking to prohibition under-16s from Vinted and eBay, Nandy said: "We are looking earnestly astatine doing truthful successful bid to support children safe."
It came aft the Sunday Times reported, external that the UK's societal media prohibition was being expanded to see the fashionable second-hand online marketplaces.
The determination was owed to fears that messaging functions connected the platforms allowed strangers to groom children, according to the newspaper. It suggested akin reselling platforms, Depop and Facebook Marketplace, would besides beryllium included successful the database of banned sites.
Businesses and individuals merchantability a big of goods connected eBay, which has been a large planetary subordinate successful the online reselling marketplace for years. The level states connected its website that it presently requires each of its members to beryllium implicit 18 years aged due to the fact that listings impact "entering into a contract".
Vinted is aimed astatine implicit 18s, but its presumption and conditions bash let parents oregon guardians to make accounts for their children, which indispensable beryllium utilized nether parental supervision.
The site, connected which users mostly bargain and merchantability unwanted apparel and different manner items, has grown rapidly precocious to scope 17 cardinal UK users.
A Vinted spokesperson said nonstop messaging was "part of however the level works" but that it had a "zero tolerance for harmful oregon explicit content" and had moderation teams and tools to spot and region "activity that breaks our rules".
"When we place inappropriate behaviour, we instrumentality action, up to a imperishable prohibition oregon reporting to the applicable authorities," they said.
An eBay spokesperson said the institution was "focused connected providing a trusted and harmless marketplace acquisition for our millions of customers".
"While the details of the projected authorities are not yet clear, we look guardant to knowing much and continuing to enactment constructively with the government," they added.
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