Media apps have responded to Keir Starmers social media ban:
YouTube:
“YouTube is a vital resource for young people, educators and parents. Blanket bans push kids out of such curated, supervised, beneficial experiences and towards anonymous, less safe services.”
Meta: (Instagram, Facebook)
“As we’ve seen in Australia, bans risk isolating teens from online communities and information, and driving them to unregulated alternatives that lack built-in protections and parental controls.”
Snapchat:
“Because the majority of time spent on Snapchat is in private messaging between friends and family, an outright ban that disconnects teens from those relationships doesn’t make them safer – it may simply push them to less safe platforms.”
Elon Musk: (X)
“This censorship law is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. The real goal is to enable the UK government to track everyone.”
He also said today that the UK is a police state.