Die Labour-Partei wird innerhalb weniger Wochen ein Vorgehen gegen soziale Medien für Kinder ankündigen

> New limits on social media access for children could be presented before the Makerfield byelection next month after an avalanche of responses to a public consultation have been analysed with the help of an **AI system called Consult** and an expert panel led by an eminent paediatrician. The consultation closes on Tuesday.

Oh this is going to be a huge mess…

> There are concerns inside government that **reforms could be hit by a legal challenge if the consultation process is not properly followed.** Over 42,000 parents and close to 14,000 young people were among over 81,000 respondents to the consultation which has included extensive lobbying by social media companies opposing changes to their algorithms. The technology secretary, Liz Kendall, said on Tuesday: “No one’s going to stop me from doing what I think is right.”

Reminder they would be using secondary legislation…

This is such a minefield. Seems like comments always end up:

– Starmer always wanted digital IDs, bans on VPNs and to curtail our Internet freedom!

– It’s always the parents‘ faults all the time!

– Social media is indeed a problem for the younger generations, they deserve to have it banned.

Nuance seems to disappear and strong, polarised opinions are held.

So, if anybody asks why people dislike Labour – send them this link.

People are really annoyed not only by the push to ban something which is disliked by officials, but they are also tired of constant misinformation about protecting kids instead of honesty about wanting to associate all UK residents’ accounts with government-issued tokens, unless people are smart enough to use a VPN.

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Honestly they be better off regulating social media rather than banning it from certain groups.

Start removing vile hate, racist comments, political agendas etc. Social media is being used as a  tool for many political crap rather than what it should be. There is way too much lies and misinformation and is causing public hate between many different groups.

It’s not to ’save the children‘ it’s to make sure we all have to give our personal data and credit card info to all the social media companies.

Then they no doubt benefit when our privacy and identity becomes a commodity.

Children should be restricted to a degree on social media, but it’s not up to this shit tip of a goverment or any other to do it; it’s down to parents.

Whatever he does will be circumvented and just drive it underground

Starmer is trying despertely to make some name for himself around saving children, whilst doing nothing about his block-voting friends raping schoolgirls

I hope they realise doing this and giving 16 year olds the vote is a recipe for disaster.

Does this mean we’ll need age verification to access Reddit? If so, I might finally get a VPN.

Why don’t they instruct the police to go after the people they are apparently scared of hurting our children? I have no doubt there is nefarious forces on the internet, I banned my son from roblox because it is a cesspit of paedophilia – that being said, I am sure if the government were to tackle the source of all of this more effectively, as opposed to spending a large amounts of money spying on their citizens and enforcing laws that are clearly designed to erode our civil liberties, then we could get much further with making the internet a safer place. I really wish we would do something that made them think twice about the games they are clearly playing with us.

I’m sorry but this is going to be a disaster.

Teenagers know ways around everything, same way we did.

The ones affected will be boomers, phoning us all up because their bookface doesn’t work and then they can put some rant about how Keir Starmer doesn’t want people to have free speech.

Same party that will want my vote in a couple of years will make me use a vpn or upload ID to keep in touch with hobby groups.

I’m always confused by labour.  You think with the high profile cabinet departures they’d at least reevaluate their strategy.

Cause you know what, I sorta agree. Social media is a bit of a blight (including reddit) and limiting its effects on kids isn’t an awful idea. Schools that have successfully got phones out the classroom have shown good results.

But trying to jam legislation through and doing this awkward back and forward with the media doesn’t help make a case, and at a time labours perceived to be authoritarian it’s the sort of measure you may not want to make headlines.

Cause this will drown out any news or labour actually stopping boats or doing genuine good, and it’s odd that social (porn, trans people, social media, protestors) causes rather than economic ones are what they burn political capital on.

Coached a team of 13 year old boys.

On a trip we had a team lunch with parents.

every kid sat at the table staring at their phones, texting each other around the table instead of talking to them.

Yep, no issue there.

When we have record numbers of young people permanently off sick with mental health problems, action has to be taken.

We don’t have the resources to provide high quality mental health care to everyone that needs it.

A better approach is to remove harm.

We’ve done the same with smoking and emissions in London – is reducing deaths and sickness a nanny state? don’t think so.

>New limits on social media access for children could be presented before the Makerfield byelection next month

Crazy timing, and probably has nothing to do with it, but I’d have to give Starmer Machiavellian props if this is a ploy to tank Andy Burnhams chances and destroy the labor vote so he doesn’t get challanged by Andy.

I think people here are really really underestimating the harm social media is causing to society.

Instead of holding social media companies accountable they cowardly decide to attempt to introduce draconian laws.

I doubt it’ll work well, but social media is a toxin. It’s worse enough for adults let alone kids. I agree it needs to be banned, but it’ll probs be easy to circumvent

They can move quickly on this type of shit but can’t do anything about leaseholds or planning reform?