🚨UPDATE : Not only may Keir Starmers social media ban be in breach of Article 8 it may now also be in breach of Article 10 of the ECHR.
And yes the ECHRs rights extends to children.
1/ Adolescence. A Netflix drama with a fictional white boy.
Parliament debated it. Into every school within weeks. To teach boys about misogyny.
That was fiction. 🧵
If the Government really wanted to protect kids, they’d stop allowing suspended sentences for paedophiles.
They’d stop letting off knife and sword carriers with suspended sentences too.
THIS BAN IS ABOUT CONTROL AND YOUR DATA.
This morning, I appeared on Good Morning Britain in a live interview about the grooming gangs. Before I went on air, I was told not to mention the race of the perpetrators. I, of course, didn’t listen.
I have now received an apology from the editor.
My interview is below: 👇🏻
I can't believe I'm sharing this, but here is 13 year old Tom, vlogging on his youtube channel from his bedroom.
This a video from a channel long since shut down, from the year of our lord 2010.
None of it is my proudest work - but I got better as I got older. I learned skills and made friends, some of whom I still know to this day.
Making these silly videos over time taught me so much about video editing, talking to cameras, and being effective on social media. I failed a lot before I got better. But I had the chance to try. I developed skills that have helped me enormously in adult life.
Had I not been able to make silly videos on youtube - and get motivated/excited about thousands of people watching them - my subsequent life would have certainly looked very different.
Some might argue that would have been for the better, but it would have certainly been for the more boring.
My 17-year-old daughter:
“I’m confused. We’ve always been taught not to share personal information or anything that identifies us online because it isn’t safe. Now they want us to do exactly that to access social media.”
@NadiaWhittomeMP My 13 year old uses you tube to learn how to play the piano. Researches information or how to do things. He uses it for good.
He doesn’t have instagram or tik tok or the others, my choice as a parent not to let him have it. Why am I now not trusted to parent?
@writtenoff_mufc My 13 year old uses you tube to learn how to play the piano. Researches information or how to do things. He uses it for good.
He doesn’t have instagram or tik tok or the others, my choice as a parent not to let him have it. Why am I now not trusted to parent?
@beverleyturner ‘I want to keep all the children safe online’ but up till now it didn’t bother her that her child was on you tube which is being banned. Make it make sense
@CMcKinnellMP My 13 year old uses you tube to learn how to play the piano. Researches information or how to do things. He uses it for good.
He doesn’t have instagram or tik tok or the others, my choice as a parent not to let him have it. Why am I now not trusted to parent?
@NJSimmondsbooks Eh. My 13 year old still doesn’t have tik tok. My choice as a parent. Any app he want has to be authorised by me. Parents need to grow a pair