SAForever

City lawyer. Proud to be half-British, half-South African; proud to be married to a Kiwi; proud to be global. Never wanted or asked for citizenship of the EU.

[SAForever @NotMilner]

@KieraDiss It's beginning to feel like an official militia is forming.

[SAForever @NotMilner]

@TheAliceSmith And any parent of young/teenage girls.

[SAForever @NotMilner]

@SBarrettBar Last month at my boys' secondary school in Chelmsford, a bloke was waving a knife at parents during the morning drop off. The school was locked down for a couple of hours until the police arrested him. He was found to be a new arrival living in a local hotel.

[SAForever @NotMilner]

@CapelLofft Actually puppies are next, given the effect that the proposed ban on trail-hunting will have on the nation's population of hounds.

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

Taking YouTube away from your daughter is your choice.

Taking it away from everyone else’s sons and daughters shouldn’t be.

This is going to put British children and teenagers at a profound disadvantage compared to children in other countries, who have access to an unimaginably large educational resource.

Our children will now know less about the world, and find it more difficult to ‘read around’ the subjects they love.

I’m sorry you didn’t grow up with YouTube. I did, and it has done me the world of good.

[SAForever @NotMilner]

@commontruth_ Even leaving that point aside, parents have very different views on all this.

[SAForever @NotMilner]

@robertemeryx My 13 year old's English class have been watching Shakespeare on YouTube; most recently Laurence Olivier as King Lear. It's bonkers to include YouTube in this, and I bet the "70%" of parent who support action on social media never thought it would extend to YouTube.

[SAForever @NotMilner]

@davidparry100 My current favourite is a video by a Kiwi physicist entitled "What did the British ever do for us?" which goes through British inventions in transport, engineering, medicine, science etc. Sadly, I can see people thinking "can't have kids learning that Britain isn't all bad."

[SAForever @NotMilner]

@andrew_lilico My 13 year old's English class uses YouTube to watch Shakespeare dramatisations - they watched Laurence Olivier as King Lear the other week.

[SAForever @NotMilner]

@Nickisbackbaby Because the people who always vote for Labour carried on doing so, and the people who always don't vote for Labour just didn't vote at all.

[SAForever @NotMilner]

@Lord_Talbot64 Presumably Elon can fund a judicial review of this element of the decision.

[SAForever @NotMilner]

@ArchRose90 Why not ban online gaming, like Minecraft and Fortnite? My kids spend more time playing on those with their mates than they do reading comments on Facebook or YouTube.

[Ranty Man @RanTeeThree]

It’s important to know that the social media ban for under 16s is not a ban for under 16s.

It is a ban on *selected* social media for EVERYONE. Until you identify yourself.

[SAForever @NotMilner]

@LoamAndLight @commontruth_ Ok, that makes more sense - thanks. But I still feel there's a bit of baby and bathwater here, and the typical Labour response: we don't like part of x so let's just ban all of x.

[SAForever @NotMilner]

@LoamAndLight @commontruth_ But I expect a lot of that 77% didn't expect YouTube, with all its excellent educational resources, to be caught by the ban. I'm all for action on proper social media, like TikTok and Facebook, and indeed scrolling through endless shorts. But YouTube seems like overreach to me.

[SAForever @NotMilner]

@AmaarShahzada @freakonadrum @FTR_PUFC @PolitlcsUK Yes, it's scrolling and misinformation that's the problem, not Laurence Oliver's performance as King Lear or a video with excellent graphics on the D-Day invasion. And what about Podcasts - don't they count? You could spend all night listening to those.

[SAForever @NotMilner]

@AmaarShahzada @Miss_Snuffy Precisely - has noone told the government about YouTube educational value? My 13 year oldest class watched a Shakespeare dramatisation on it the other day.

[SAForever @NotMilner]

@thomasknox @andrewgadsden @BucketsOf_Rain Me too. Although I don't see Reform as a potential gov unfortunately. In fact I don't see much hope at all at the moment. Nor will my 13 year old when I tell him he can't watch Shakespeare dramatisations, music concerts and history documentaries on YouTube anymore.

[SAForever @NotMilner]

@andrewgadsden @BucketsOf_Rain @thomasknox That was my experience of 2 Essex hospitals last week: Indian doctors, African nurses (one of whom actually apologised to me for her lack of English) and a few white faces amongst other staff. But there must be white doctors, because we see them when the strikes happen.

[SAForever @NotMilner]

@DominicFarrell YouTube has immense educational value; eg my 13 year old‘s class watches dramatisations of Shakespeare on it. Loads of videos on history, science; music and drama. It’s totally insane. I can’t express how much I hate this government.