NEW | Raging about stupid policy from a desperate PM…
MAKING MEDIA STUDIES COMPULSORY WOULD BE MORE EFFECTIVE THAN A SOCIAL MEDIA BAN
Teach kids how to truly understand what they're bombarded; don’t pretend we can prevent them from encountering it.
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Parents: is YOUR child staying up late at night arguing about the costs of HS2?
I think I have a solution here. Given the only things visiting your website are bots, simply don’t bother adding CSS
"She's [worried] this policy will leave her out of work and undermine her future in the influencing industry. Most of her followers are under-16."
Stop it, BBC. "are under 16" is fine. If you were talking about a cohort, "her under-16 followers" is an acceptable compound adjective hyphen use case.
Time for me to repeat one of my ‘sayings’.
If you try to solve a problem by passing a law, but people don’t obey the law, you now have two problems where you used to have one.
'We are clamping down on the harm caused by social media.
'Read all about it on the Nazi pogrom deepfake abuse website'
"We're going to take our worst policy – the one that's done most damage to the internet in the UK – and 'build' on it at the behest of all the Mumsnet people on this sofa who don't know the first thing about the internet but who have suffered a loss and so are now our policy advisers."
Years ago I was on a stag weekend in Poland. We went paintballing.
We were chatting to the Polish guys who ran it over beers afterwards and one casually mentioned that British dudes were the ONLY ones who ever seemed to listen and keep their eye protection on.
So we explained Byker Grove to them.
As I’ve said for a while, this plan doesn’t ’rein in’ the tech giants, it gives them more information and more power over us.