@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.
@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.
@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.
@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”.
@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.
@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.
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.