Everyone who is scared of cities and multiculturalism is a loser.
From one of the many PR emails I'm getting about the government social media ban. Obviously this is from someone selling this technology.
But stop to think about just how utterly dystopian this is: *constant* video surveillance of all online activity, for everyone.
'We are clamping down on the harm caused by social media.
'Read all about it on the Nazi pogrom deepfake abuse website'
laura olin
Adam Bienkov
James Ball
New Yorkers singing Empire State of Mind
I know nobody cares what's happening on Twitter nowadays, but if you are following #socialmediaban you need to see what @savechildrenuk.bsky.social posted over there:
"If ministers want to make the online world safer, the answer is not simply keeping children off platforms.
Save the Children"
Prohibition has never worked. We already know that very high numbers of under 16s in Australia continue to access social media notwithstanding the 'ban'. The same will happen in the UK. All a ban does is given the impression of having 'done something' while ignoring the actual issues.
