Much of the developed world is watching how the Australian under-16 social media ban is working, with critics already claiming in the UK, that Keir Starmer has a 'blindspot' on the damage social media has wrought on the young....
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Much of the developed world is watching how the Australian under-16 social media ban is working, with critics already claiming in the UK, that Keir Starmer has a 'blindspot' on the damage social media has wrought on the young....
The key argument in the UK against following the Australian example will, as usual, be that such a ban can be (relatively easily) circumvented - see VPN usage & pornography!
But on this we shouldn't let the perfect be the enemy of the good!
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Much of the developed world is watching how the Australian under-16 social media ban is working, with critics already claiming in the UK, that Keir Starmer has a 'blindspot' on the damage social media has wrought on the young....
The key argument in the UK against following the Australian example will, as usual, be that such a ban can be (relatively easily) circumvented - see VPN usage & pornography!
But on this we shouldn't let the perfect be the enemy of the good!
@ChrisMayLA6 @quixoticgeek the key argument is not that it’s unenforceable, or unworkable… it’s that *children (and adults) have a right to communicate*
Imagine it was the 80s and righteous campaigners said that children should be banned from using telephones because they might talk to *bad people*
This is not to let anyone off the hook in terms of safety - we have a duty to educate, to moderate, to regulate. Blanket bans and age gating is all about letting platforms avoid that.
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