@RedBSierra Im on it now

if this social media ban came in when I was a kid it would literally have prevented me from starting my entire career I started on youtube when I was 13. the no nonsense guides would not exist if I had to start years later. crazy to think about tbh

Its just digital ID - the protecting kids bit is BS other than to make sure they can't access non-establishment opinions.

This all seems to be a ploy to link IP addresses and online activity directly to an identifiable person to make them easier to catch and track down. The government falsely assumed that everyone watches porn and they thought they would get everyone that way. It obviously did not work as well as they were hoping so they are now expanding it. (I have always said that initial laws are just a foot in the door, those laws will always be expanding after the fact into their true original intended purpose). So their plan now is if you want to use any social media or much of the internet in any way, you will need to prove that you are over 18 which means submitting an ID. This will require far far more ID submissions which will massively expand the government database, which was the real plan all along, not the safety of children. The funniest thing about this is after all the fuss about the Online Safety Act, this blanket ban on kids using social media pretty much renders the entire act pointless and made it a giant waste of time. Which to be honest, proves that the act was never about protecting children but was really about building a giant database that links all online activity directly to a person. This database would then be constantly poured over by AI to flag "citizens of concern" to the government who may be potential political dissidents, saying naughty anti-government things etc so the government can pre-emptively act against them. Minority Report. This is literally the plot of Minority Report.

All the nonces on Bluesky tonight

Twinkdeath at 20 is brutal

When I was a teenager I had a passion for making videos, I wanted to go into film and tv but when I tried to take the traditional eduction route I quickly realised it was a failing system The teachers were underpaid, didn’t care enough, under resourced and quite frankly weren’t really skilled enough to actually provide me with the level of eduction I needed to persue my passion So I turned to YouTube where I found millions of free, highly eductional tutorials that taught me everything I needed to know, I spent 3 years between the age of 13-16 on YouTube every night learning how to use different softwares, how to edit videos, cinematography, how to tell stories etc All of which are things a traditional eduction in tv and film never even attempted to teach me, 12 years on I’ve built an entire career with the knowledge I learned from free YouTube tutorials, bought a house from that knowledge and contributed substaincially to both the economy and the tax fund in this country Banning YouTube for U16s does far more damage than it does good to the next generation, it takes away their ability to learn and grow outside of the boundries of a government approved education system and puts the country at risk of falling even further behind the rest of the world than we already are in terms of inovation

"stare at a wall" 🤣 bless her. She's right though. They can't go out, the world isn't what it used to be. There's nothing to do and everything there is costs money. The kids connect through social media with friends all over the world. This could have been done so differently but this government is hellbent on digging their own political grave. On the plus side I am all for radicalising the kids against the left.

🚨 WATCH: School children react to the UK social media ban for under-16s live on BBC News

“I just can’t let it go on” oh it’s all about you?

Wait so it wasn't a conspiracy theory then. Its not about protecting kids, this is a way for them to use digital ID's to enforce total control on social media. This is a recipe for mass censorship. Comrade Keir is going full 1984. It's unacceptable.

Just buy a 25 year old Japanese truck for 2 grand and your weekly finance will be zero. How many times do you think it's broken in the last two years of my ownership? Also zero.

there’s no words in the irish or english dictionary to describe my revulsion to these people

Update: The scene in Rathcoole tonight where a car has been damaged in an arson attack. The vehicle belongs to a foreign national family who live in the area. Police are now at the property @BelTel

I never talk politics with my kids, they don't know my views. But I just mentioned to my 8yo and 11yo that the Labour government is going to ban them from YouTube and they are now in a cold rage calling for the destruction of Labour party for all time.

The problem for the politicians denying that Britain is a two-tier society is that nobody seems to have told the rest of the state, which continues to implement policies showing that it very much is:

It was nice the government backed off from Digital ID after overwhelming backlash. Hmmm, new policy, how do they enforce this then....

At 16 you can: 1) Vote 2) Join the Army 3) Play the lottery 4) Have sex. 5) Drive (provisional, full licence at 17). However, you cannot go on Facebook in the evening. Makes sense, Keir. Thanks.

United Kingdom is longer a free country

Under your government you denied white people from applying to internships within the civil service for being white. In 2016 some recuriters from your government were in my university and handed me an ipad to apply. The screen instantly rejected me after i filled in my race. This instantly radicalised me against the British State finding more and more that the state wanted me and all my white male competent collouges in the physics department to be denied influental roles simply because we were white. It was not just me, we all hate you, the state, and you specifically Ben, you and your collouges in the Con party ignored our complaints about this 2 tiered treatment for the 14 years you were in power. We will burry you.

Jonathan Haidt (@JonHaidt) is getting exactly what he wants. Kids banned from YouTube. Phones banned in schools. Private schools taxed into bankruptcy. The only information kids will get is state-funded, state-approved, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.