'We are clamping down on the harm caused by social media.
'Read all about it on the Nazi pogrom deepfake abuse website'
Between 2010-23 local govt spending on youth services was slashed by £1.2bn in real terms (a 73% cut). Over 1,000 youth centres shut & 4,500 youth worker roles were lost
Kendall "On.. more things for young people to do.. we are investing in that, £500m in our new youth strategy"
Instead of locking children out of a toxic swamp, the government should force big tech to clean it up...
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Adam Bienkov
Video
The government ignoring the evidence from their own survey. What a shower.
Instead of locking children out of a toxic swamp, the government should force big tech to clean it up
goodlaw.social
Saul Staniforth
Good Law Project
"a blanket ban is a cop out because it avoids forcing social media outfits to comply with British laws. Which, as we've seen with the government's attitude to far right and loyalist violence and their use of Twitter and Facebook to organise, looks very much like a pattern of behaviour..."
This consultation (pdf) on what has led to the social media ban for under 16s is worth reading. It shows that parents and teens are much more aligned on the kinds of measures that would actually work for all of us, rather than just a blanket ban assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a2f00...
Since the UK government seems intent on playing political football with young people’s digital & offline lives with the social media ban, I'm resharing the paper that @pamogranite.bsky.social, Catherine Talbot & I wrote re: the importance of SM for LGBTQIA+ users journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
The way they are just refusing to talk about education (for young people or adults) about phones is a real 'tell' for me
The great benefit of Starmer getting behind the social media ban, is that public support for it will now plummet
