Phone ban, social media ban & curfew, trans bathroom ban, trans youth healthcare ban, repeated protest ban, arrests of peaceful protestors for Palestine.
All this government seems able to do is ban, ban, ban. No positive vision of the future, just kneejerk authoritarian crackdowns.
This is a much more impressive accomplishment than becoming a trillionaire
Gianmarco Soresi
Kristen
This is nuts. Yes we need better protections online, but this is a massive overreach by Starmer. For many young people, especially marginalised ones such as trans and neurodivergent, online spaces can be a safe place for them to develop a genuine support community
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
‘Can you name *one* thing JK Rowling has said that’s *actually* transphobic’? Remember that old chestnut?
This is what bigotry does to you, unfortunately. It permeates everything, your whole life, so you can never behave normally again.
Sources say hardline measures will also prevent young users from being to talk to strangers on gaming apps
same with trans healthcare but it's apparently fearmongering to even mention the material reality of Mamdani promising very specific actions to help trans kids only to turn around and institutionalize illegal healthcare discrimination against trans kids in city healthcare services
