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I am going to say this bluntly You are a FAILURE as parents if you can't keep you child off social media yourself YOU bought them the phone YOU can confiscate it during homework YOU are the parent, NOT Keir Starmer Authoritarian ban for your "convenience" is not the answer

Short list of things the government chose not to do, to protect children before deciding to put all social media behind a gate of facial recognition. - Make the advice on no phones in schools statutory, instead of optional. - Making it statutory for early years health visitors and schools to share guides on how to implement technical parental controls at home. - National advertising campaign on the dangers of screen time and social media. Eat your five a day, and then touch some grass. - Tell the nudge unit (behavioural insights team) to make children's phone and social media usage a priority. - Ask questions about screen time in children's check up surveys by GPs. - Allow GPs to prescribe outdoor, offline activities. If this was truly a child safety, health and wellbeing issue, then people would have been campaigning for and trying to implement all of the above. Of course, it's not actually about protecting children.

This will not end with under 16s You don’t hate this government enough

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First word of the show and the last word of the show (so far.) Very timey wimey!

🚨 Starmer is about to ban under 16s from social media. And the establishment is already pushing to extend it to under 18s. They want you to believe this is about protecting children. It is not. To enforce an age limit on social media every single user in Britain will be forced to upload their passport to a government approved database just to prove they are allowed to speak online. They are not building a child safety net. They are building a national ID database through the back door and using your children as the excuse to do it. First they arrested people for tweets. Then they monitored legal posts. Now they want your passport before you are allowed to have an opinion. RT if you see exactly what they are building. 🇬🇧

Let’s do the actual maths on this social media ban, because no one in government seems to have bothered. The ban has no financial penalties for parents whose children circumvent it. The companies administering age checks have publicly admitted they cannot do it accurately. The policy is modelled on Australia’s, which the government’s own minister observed is being bypassed by large numbers of teenagers already. A generation that has grown up online will take approximately forty-five minutes to find a workaround, share it on group chats, and post tutorials about it. So what is the enforcement mechanism? There isn’t one. What is the deterrent? There isn’t one. What happens when a 15-year-old uses a VPN and logs in anyway? Nothing. What happens to Meta if they fail to stop them? That part is still being worked out — later this summer, presumably. This is not a policy. It is a gesture. It is the state pointing at a problem it cannot solve and hoping that a press release will be mistaken for a solution. “Things are going to change,” says the Prime Minister. That sentence has done more work for this government than any of its actual legislation. The tragedy is that there are real interventions available — restricting algorithmic amplification, banning autoplay, mandating genuine design changes that reduce compulsive use. Targeted, enforceable, practical. Instead we get a theatrical ban that criminalises nothing, changes nothing, and will be forgotten by conference season. The people who campaigned for this deserve better than a stunt. The children it claims to protect deserve better than this. Is there a single person in government who actually intends to do anything?

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I hate this. I hate it with a passion. So personally attacked! 😅

Would it not be quicker if we just banned Keir Starmer and all got on with our lives? 😅

Just so we're clear on how absolutely stupid the British Government is. When a petition is signed with over 2 million people saying No to Digital ID, it gets ignored. When 9000 people answer an online, unadvertised survey, suddenly it's "overwhelming support".

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

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I have never considered myself a fan of Tony Blair, but this article is a thoroughly good read and much of it makes a lot of sense.

En 2017 Netflix estrenó casi sin hacer ruido una de las series más inteligentes de la historia: Dark. Una producción alemana que dejó sin palabras a todo el mundo. Abro hilo con los datos más brutales de su creación que demuestran por qué es una obra maestra casi irrepetible👇🏻🧵

It’s the railway equivalent of a bypass. You move fast trains onto it to free up capacity on the existing railway which, in turn, you use to increase slower services.

“Most of this skyscraper’s budget was blown without a single roof-tile being laid.”

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I didn't know Helen of Troy could generate so much conflict.