Chartered librarian. Interests include KM, legal tech & innovation, gin, languages/linguistics, reading especially Girls Own books, & road racing (mostly the classics). Usually found trying to improve my very rusty French or searching for sun. Herts/London
Tina Reynolds
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PS you know how I've spent several years pointing out the race/class/status aspects of the children's online safety crusade, as centred in a very privileged London bubble?
Here in Scotland, "young people" start uni at 17 and some as young as 16.
Uni students, under bans and nighttime curfews.
Also, why 8.30pm? Feels random as a time.
And does this mean I (a person who never knowingly interacts with children) will need to give random internet companies my passport?
Using secondary legislation to implement stuff like this makes me uncomfortable. Secondary legislation *should* be used for technical details and tweaks like increasing monetary limits, not substantive policy implementation!
Now, I wouldn't call a 16 year old an adult...(young person, maybe?) but if you can join the armed forces, get a job, pay taxes etc. etc. then a curfew seems a little insane
Even just get it to not make algorithmic suggestions to children - minor change and would help massively
