Northern Man v2

Male and Northern since birth. Both feel OK to me.

[Northern Man v2 @Northernmanv2]

@EmmaforWycombe We’re already part of Europe.

You mean the EU so why not say do?

[Northern Man v2 @Northernmanv2]

@kevinhollinrake You are deluded.

Everyone buying alcohol has their age checked - visibly by the shop staff, with further ID if the staff feel that the customer may be too young.

You should be wholeheartedly against this until the mechanism for enabling it is defined.

[Northern Man v2 @Northernmanv2]

@KirstieMAllsopp It isn’t an outright ban.

Does nobody bother to look at the detail?

Children will be allowed to consume as much government-approved social media (e.g. Bluesky) as they want to.

[Northern Man v2 @Northernmanv2]

@LauraTrottMP @MumsnetTowers @RaiseTheAge16 @HP4SaferScreens @safe_screens @Netmums It's not a ban.

It's prohibition.

A child can consume as much as they like of government-approved social media like BlueSky.

[Northern Man v2 @Northernmanv2]

@JessBrownFuller Good Lord! You thought that posting this was a smart thing to do??

[Northern Man v2 @Northernmanv2]

@IanMurrayMP It’s not a ban, it’s a funnel to sites that your party approves of.

Do you have a conscience?

[Northern Man v2 @Northernmanv2]

@KemiBadenoch @LauraTrottMP Are you insane? This is not a ban, just funnelling young people to Labour-approved social media such as Bluesky - the home of lefty thinking and paedophiles.

[Northern Man v2 @Northernmanv2]

@JoaniReid It isn’t a ban though is it?

You will still allow children to use the social media that your government approves of.

Maybe set up a new body to regulate this and call it something catchy like “The Ministry of Truth”.

[Northern Man v2 @Northernmanv2]

@TrisOsborneMP Hi Tris. Please tell me, do you think that Orwell’s 1984 was a warning or an instruction manual?

[Northern Man v2 @Northernmanv2]

@EddieHotrod58 @SpeechUnion Far *rather*.

Do keep up.

[Northern Man v2 @Northernmanv2]

@EddieHotrod58 @SpeechUnion Whereas you have the spelling skills of one?

[Northern Man v2 @Northernmanv2]

@TalkTV @jkyleofficial Please report this properly. He has *not* announced a “social media ban”.

The govt is planning to deny access only to ten specific apps/websites.

One app not on the list is Bluesky, a left-wing platform with members who declare as a “minor attracted person”.

This matters.

[Northern Man v2 @Northernmanv2]

@Keir_Starmer “So we’re giving children their childhoods back.”

I don’t think you are mate.

[Northern Man v2 @Northernmanv2]

@GoodwinMJ Can you stop sounding like an entitled Tory?

Any votes for @RestoreBritain are not “your” votes that have been “stolen” from you.

They are either people who haven’t, in recent years, found a party worth voting for or people who think that @reformparty_uk is a bit too wet.

[Northern Man v2 @Northernmanv2]

@WBATDM North Yorkshire. Where it’s at dudes.

[Northern Man v2 @Northernmanv2]

@EdwardJDavey You are the Mr Blobby of the social media, but with bloodied hands from postmaster deaths.

I’d keep a lower profile if I was you.

[Northern Man v2 @Northernmanv2]

@jessicaelgot @LoftusSteve So do you agree that it is politically motivated nonsense then?

[Northern Man v2 @Northernmanv2]

@SpeechUnion Would a photo of David Lammy do, as long as “under 16” refers to age rather than IQ?

[Northern Man v2 @Northernmanv2]

@TalkTV I do hope you are all over this.

@UKLabour - tell us. I dare you.

[Rhydian Lloyd-Francis @RhydianLFrancis]

If Bluesky is excluded from the Government’s proposed under-16 social media ban whilst X is included, it is fair to ask whether political considerations have influenced the decision.

The Government should publish the criteria used to determine which platforms are covered.

[Northern Man v2 @Northernmanv2]

@jessicaelgot Popular with who?