A social media ban for under-16s is “not on the cards at the moment”, a minister has said, as teenagers urged him to rethink plans to follow Australia’s lead and restrict access to sites such as TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat.
Finally, a plan so stupid even Starmer's mob can see right through it!
Peter Kyle, the secretary of state for science and technology, is trying to convince social media platforms to do more to prevent online harms, with new laws coming into effect next year that could result in heavy fines and even jail in cases where online safety is breached. He told the Guardian: “There’s no work programme at the moment on banning smartphones to children,” and he added: “It’s not my preferred choice.”
Because it's impossible, as Australia will shortly leaen.
He said the main risk he was concerned to tackle was of deaths of children as a result of social media. “I’ve met parents of children who have either committed suicide or the murder has been instigated via online activity,” he said.
“I get a lot of parents writing to me saying ‘just stop this kit getting into my kid’s hands’.”
Do you ever say to them 'No, that's your job, you're the parents'?
'At the moment', and, 'not preferred'. Sounds like they have plans to do it in the future then. Got to soften everyone up with smaller pointless laws first though,
ReplyDeleteOf course they do! This way leads to the cancelling of Internet anonymity. and they know it...
DeleteI blame the kind of people who think that the government has the solution to every one of their problems. No matter how consistently the government causes problems while failing to solve them, these people carry on blindly believing.
ReplyDeleteStonyground.
We are breeding more and more such people. The tipping point has already been reached.
DeleteLabours answer to everything is to either tax it to death or ban it. Which will they choose here?
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Neither - they will usher in the removal of anonymity, which I believe has always been the goal.
DeleteThere are those who believe government help is the solution and others who believe it is the problem. We just don't learn do we?
ReplyDeleteSome of us do. It's just no longer a big enough percentage to count.
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