🚨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?"
I have put restrictions on my kids phones so they can’t use them before 7am or after 8pm except to make calls/send texts.
They can’t download apps without me approving and they’re not allowed:
WhatsApp
Instagram
TikTok
Snapchat
X
It’s called parenting, some should try it.
May I gently point out - the person you casually refer to as "Starmer" - is actually the democratically elected Prime Minister.
Would it not be courteous to refer to him in those terms ?
At least respect the office of PM if not the individual in post.
A mum stopped me at the station to say how happy she is that we are legislating to protect children online.
She’s excited for her younger son to have more quality time during his childhood.
That’s all any parent wants, and the Government is taking action to support this.
Politicians want the state to play mummy and daddy with bans on social media because they think ordinary people can't control their kids. But we can - it's these MPs who seem to have a parenting problem. This is an exceptionally weird clip to put online.
🚨 NEW: The BBC has revealed Russia has been setting up fake far-right and Islamist groups in the UK to stoke division
Operatives paid people to vandalise mosques, spread extremist propaganda and inflame tensions after the Southport riots
Some tricky conversations this evening about the impending social media ban.
‘I don’t even know who this government guy is’
‘Keir Starmer’
‘Keir Starmer, what does that mean’
“Adults can still access social media through age checks like facial recognition, digital IDs, passports and credit cards”
This is what Labour and the Conservatives now call freedom: proving who you are before you can speak, read or participate online.
They say this ban protects children from online predators. I’ve prosecuted those predators. Here’s what they don’t tell you.
We catch him. We charge him. Then he’s released on bail while the case crawls through the courts for a year. When he’s convicted, he doesn’t go to prison, he gets a suspended sentence or a community order.
Successive governments won’t lock up the actual predator, won’t take away the groomer’s freedom. But won’t hesitate to curb ours.
Just a head up, but @FIFAWorldCup, see when the @England fans turn up, throwing patio furniture, getting arrogant, and getting a bit lairy.
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