Your reminder today, as no one will report it, that the leading children's protection charity in the UK, NSPCC, opposes a blanket ban on social media, along with many other children's safety groups.
This is what they've said:
"But for countless children, especially those who feel shut out or unheard offline, social media isn’t a luxury. It’s a lifeline – a source of community, identity, and vital support.
“A blanket ban would take those spaces away overnight and risks driving teenagers into darker, unregulated corners of the internet. Everyone involved in this debate will have the best interests of children at heart, but children’s fundamental right to participate safely in the digital world, to access information, to connect with peers, and to have their voices heard must be protected. They should not be stripped of those rights because tech companies have repeatedly failed to build platforms that protect them."
The people who are cheering on the social media banning the UK clearly have no idea what is going on there.
As a father, I agree that social media is toxic for kids. It’s actually toxic for most adults, but if you think that a government who has imprisoned adults for social media posts but covered up rape gangs is doing this for the benefit of children, I have a bridge in London to sell you.
This will almost certainly be weaponized to further take away the freedoms of the British people, and although social media IS damaging to kids, it is one of the only ways they are getting alternative information than that curated by the leftist media.
Just like the teens who are carrying knives in defiance of the knife ban, these kids will find a way around the social media ban. It is virtue signalling from a government who has been complicit in the destruction of British culture, and the useful idiots are cheering it on like the lemmings they are.
Perhaps the onus to be responsible should be on the parents who give their kids the mental equivalent of crack cocaine in the form of a phone at a young age in an attempt to keep them quiet, rather than a tyrannical givernment who puts the interests of everyone but the British people first.
🚨NEW: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov:
"All social media users in the UK will have to prove they’re over 16 with ID.
Thousands in the UK are already arrested for political posts every year.
Is this really about protecting children — or identifying more people to arrest?"
@JimGamble_INEQE Sadly despite the supposed good intentions of this, teenage belligerents are still going to add their victims on what’s app groups and take videos of beat downs
This legislation has nothing to do with kid safety - it’s all to do with Starmer big brothering the public
@Teresa_PS@markinneswilli Riddle me this - how can youth clubs be widespreadly publicised to get word about them to the target audience now that social media is banned
@concertina226 Your post is nonsensical. Reducing screen time for kids could only be achieved by Orwellian legislation for us all 🤔
Amazing “journalism”
@JRH1865@geoffcraft00@Brooksyhfc@CharlieHillReal lol you’re clearly thick as mince pal
I (partially) spell out my warnings about these scanning tools which are out there and your primary instinctive comeback/ thought is “he’s worried”
@fcmufc17@treason_the People who think this legislation is for the benefit of kids screen time + well being are the idiots that Starmer is depending on
@JRH1865@geoffcraft00@Brooksyhfc@CharlieHillReal Haha imagine being this naive and idiotic
The scanning tools are already widespread and being utilised (atm ad hoc inconsistently) by government and firms that can’t afford to not use it - right now. This tech can be weaponised in a myriad of ways
@Antedios_BC29@Miss_Snuffy Headteachers, in particular, are petrified that their heads of department aren’t tackling pedagogy within their teaching teams. YouTube by pro-teachers can explain concepts better than many a frightened trainee which make up around 30% of some schools
This headteacher is a joke
@gerryd84 Any parent who says “kids need to go out and play - my kid sits in a room all day” would fail at parenting at any point of human history. Embarrassing
@Miss_Snuffy Eugh what a virtue signalling post by underscoring a mere opinion of yours by signing off with “children are our future” (blah blah blah)
If the government truly thought social media screen time would help their well being then why is blue sky exempt
Embarrassing
@JRH1865@geoffcraft00@Brooksyhfc@CharlieHillReal Utterly wide of the mark and weak sauce slander pal
And that’s my point - you’ve right now left a digital trail accusing someone of baloney which now anyone who scans or screenshots your account can now use against you
Oops and pretty much proves you’re rather oblivious
@JRH1865@geoffcraft00@Brooksyhfc@CharlieHillReal Clueless and naive mate. This legislation effectively forces social media accounts to be linked with one’s actual identity - it’s full on big brother surveillance territory.
@educationgovuk@JoshMacAlister Correction - *more time* for government propaganda
DfE is filled with people who’ve never left the school/education bubble and not seen the world for themselves
Whilst kids fall behind for a number of reasons, the teachers who support this are the ones who can’t teach