The Royal Society for Blind Children and the National Deaf Children's Society have both come out against the Starmer social media ban.
"Internet bad" is a trendy, upper-middle-class opinion for people with extracurricular budgets that ignores legions of people who rely on it.
To clear up any confusion:
There are TWO bans on under 16's access to social media in the UK. The first is at the app level and this comes into play next year. It will require selected social media apps to prompt for age verification when accessing them.
The second more insidious one is happening much sooner. This one is the 'nudity detection' feature and this one operates on device level. It will require every adult to show a form of ID in order to operate their phones and tablets without restrictions/monitoring.
The voluntary deadlines to tech companies to implement this is around early September this year.
If Apple, Google and others don’t implement device-level monitoring by then, the government has said it will bring forward legislation to make it mandatory.
People saying "Just use a VPN!" are not understanding how this works.
that’s the question isn’t it. what WILL she do? there are no youth clubs for her to attend. food, cinema tickets, any sort of third space activity is all too expensive. their parents are underpaid, saturday jobs don’t exist any more, children have truly been abandoned by the govt
"Stare at a wall" is so apt bc there is literally nothing for kids to do here anymore. Parks are for young children, so teens get chased out, everything is super expensive so you can't go on a day out, and there's precious little nature left to explore.
Thats all you can do.
Sonic-themed soap products from @DrSquatchSoapCo are believed to be coming soon.
An email is being sent out to customers teasing said products.
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Ya'll I'm so serious when I say this, and I'm gonna say this with my ENTIRE ass.
Stop. Doing. This. Shit. It makes you an annoying pest. You are damaging your business and making people not wanna interact with you.
For the love of god STOP.
#artmoots
I never knew about this until now but god fucking damn it, this sucks, i always wondered why the ending was so absurdly random and garbage.
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