Bi/29/💛🤍💜🖤/🏴🇹🇷 just ur Regular Anxious Photograoher on the Autistic Spectrum ! sometimes posts photos ! mostly posts bullshit !
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Watching this unfold is fascinating. It serves literally nobody in the UK other than some very obviously mysterious person in the background of this government
It obliterates Labours chances at the next election
And it'll almost certainly be circumnavigated
🚨 SUMMARY: The UK's social media ban for children from early 2027:
- "User-to-user" apps where people create, share and interact with content (e.g. TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, X, Facebook) will be banned for under-16s
- WhatsApp, Signal and YouTube Kids will be exempt
- Under-16s will also be banned from livestreaming, messaging strangers on gaming apps like Discord and using disappearing messages
- 16 and 17 year olds will face nightly social media curfews and limits on infinite scrolling with more details next month
- AI "romantic companion" chatbots will be banned for under-18s
- Adults can still access social media through age checks like facial recognition, digital IDs, passports and credit cards
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This is absolutely insane.
The suffragettes used far more extreme tactics than Palestine Action.
They planted bombs, burned down private homes and smashed up art galleries.
They killed five people!
Her outrageous judgement is based on absurd historical ignorance.
The Lady Chief Justice: Palestine Action was not a direct action civil disobedience protest group like the suffragettes, but used violence to destroy property
The suffragettes burned down country houses & train stations, bombed churches & sent letter bombs to politicians.
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This is actually heartbreaking
The Royal Society for Blind Children and the National Deaf Children's Society have both come out against the Starmer social media ban.
"Internet bad" is a trendy, upper-middle-class opinion for people with extracurricular budgets that ignores legions of people who rely on it.
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very, very funny arc for the last hundred years of British feminism but in fairness this is exactly what a lot of leading suffragettes had in mind by it
The Lady Chief Justice: Palestine Action was not a direct action civil disobedience protest group like the suffragettes, but used violence to destroy property
The suffragettes burned down country houses & train stations, bombed churches & sent letter bombs to politicians.
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As Peter Hain pointed out in the debate on banning PA last year, this govt would have called him a terrorist for participating in anti apartheid protests in the 1970s & they would have called called the suffragettes terrorists too
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Since I'm a Taurus on the Cusp of Aires I'm gonna say his birthday is the 23rd of April cos that's my birthday and also John Cena and Shakespeares birthday.
Random #tvl thoughts
-Daniel being “Taurus on the cusp of Aries” means his birthday is probably April 20th (aka 420) (haha weed day)
-Lestat was wearing the Teenage Engineering OP-XY sequencer during that one song (a $2300 instrument) (why was he wearing it like that)
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It's truly abominable how quickly it went to "no it's just porn" to "everything in the centralised Internet is on lockdown until we are able to arrest everyone for memes"
JUST IN: UK Government clarifies adults will still be able to use social media by verifying their identities with digital IDs, facial recognition, passports and credit cards.
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Tom retweeted
I could take him seriously if he also challenged the legal system and pushed for harsher punishments regarding children. A former Labour ex-councillor was given an eight-month prison sentence for sending nudes to a 13 year old. Children are being failed in many different ways
🚨 WATCH: Keir Starmer says under-16s in the UK may get around his social media ban
"But we don't say, 'oh look, a teenager managed to get a drink somehow' - let's not bother banning alcohol sales to children"
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“Giving children their childhood back?”
So reopening the 2,000 youth clubs closed under neoliberalism? The 1,000 children’s centres?
Recreating the 10,000 playing fields lost?
Or the 800 playgrounds lost in the last 10 years?
The 1,000 libraries?
The after-school clubs closed?
We are banning social media access for under 16s.
These days kids must find their feet in a world where technology intrudes into every area of their life.
I just can’t let that go on anymore. So we’re giving children their childhoods back.
Community note
The UK Government's 'careful review' of the research found a small correlation between children's use of social media and wellbeing, but no evidence of a causal effect:
gov.uk/government/pub…
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0b46…
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Reminder.
A social media ban was NOT in Labour's 2024 Manifesto.
Neither was Digital I.D.
Oh, or State Suicide.
Or binning the two child benefit cap.
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Tom retweeted
a lot of these parents cheering for the under 16s social media ban are also the same ones that shoved their kids in front of an ipad all the time since they were toddlers so they’re going to be in for a shock when theyre now forced to deal with the consequences of that
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I feel fundamentally if the UK public does not understand this, it is a wrap.
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Polling for digital ID
46% Oppose
27% Supported
Polling for banning under 16s from social media
11% Oppose
79% Supported
They’re the same thing 🙂
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Tom retweeted
"But YouTube Kids is exempt" so you want 15-year-olds to be watching content aimed at kids 12-&-under rather than documentaries about the topics they're studying in school, or movie reviews, or anything remotely intellectually stimulating?
Absolutely agree with this. Requiring YouTube to be more careful about content it points teens at is one thing, but blanket ban is harmful.
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seeing adults on this app support what’s essentially a censorship law ironically proves they can be as annoying and stupid as teens online
Can’t overstate how much teenagers being annoying online is not a justified reason to defend identity based internet bans
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Tom retweeted
Living in Britain today is just being forced to endure a ceaseless bombardment of policy decisions designed to make like utterly miserable. An eternal bleak midwinter. Generational demoralisation.
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"buzzword buzzword buzzword, now let us spy on you and your children"
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🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer speaks ahead of announcing a social media ban for under-16s tomorrow morning
"How we keep kids safe online is one of the biggest debates of our time. As a dad, I know every parent wants their child to grow up safe and happy.
"This is a choice about whose side we’re on: families across the country, or a status quo that isn’t working. People rightly expect action, and this Government will always stand up for parents and put children first.
"That’s why we will call time on a system that’s failing our kids and take bold action to give every child the best possible start in life"
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RT @bombdiggy__: I think banning social media for under 16s is unfair. This is most technologically advanced generation and they’re being p…
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RT @TaylorLorenz: “Instead of addressing the known causes of strife among young people, politicians around the world seem intent on leverag…
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Banning under-16s from YouTube mostly means banning them from logging in, which means YouTube will treat them less like kids and more like anonymous adults. Great job, UK.
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Call me woke but I feel they did this because they see that the kids are waking up to them questioning the hypocrisy in government on social media and they want to put a cap on that
🚨 WATCH: School children react to the UK social media ban for under-16s live on BBC News
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