| A good day for the Govt 11:47 - Jun 15 with 2546 views | itfcjoe |
Social media ban for U16s announced, very popular and important
Home Office wins appeal against prescribing Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation |  |
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| A good day for the Govt on 19:42 - Jun 15 with 419 views | Swansea_Blue |
| A good day for the Govt on 12:01 - Jun 15 by bartyg |
The children are flocking to bluesky and learning about Das Kapital |
From the little I’ve seen of the place, there’s a real danger any youngsters visiting could be groomed into animal-loving landscape photographers. So action is long overdue imo! |  |
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| A good day for the Govt on 11:17 - Jun 16 with 293 views | dirtyboy |
I see it as a positive move, but with huge regret at parenting being the cause.
The government largely has a role to protect its citizens and if parents can't look after the interests of their children properly, then it has to step in and try to do something.
My gig with the kids is "I pay for it, so what goes on it and when you use it is my call"
It's insanely addictive, it's creating generations of people who'll have the attention spans of goldfish heading into working environments which will smash the a**e out of the productivity of the UK.
I'm sure some see this as a back door for Digital ID and there are methods around it, which are no different to cigarettes, vapes, drugs etc, but removing it from being a social norm is no bad thing.
The BlueSky thing is irrelevant, it's only got 40m users and they're not kids (yet!)
There's a lot more wrong with this country that needs fixing imo that would remove the requirements.
Trouble is, nobody respects the government, and that filters down to people having no respect for any rules or doing the right thing. |  | | |
| A good day for the Govt on 12:13 - Jun 16 with 233 views | Leaky |
| A good day for the Govt on 15:44 - Jun 15 by Benters |
So at 16 they can.
Get married.
Have children.
Join the armed forces.
And now look at FB.
How exciting.
Edited for Balls. [Post edited 15 Jun 15:46]
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However you can't have a pint while doing it |  | | |
| A good day for the Govt on 12:19 - Jun 16 with 219 views | jayessess |
| A good day for the Govt on 19:36 - Jun 15 by redrickstuhaart |
Nothing to do with judicial independence. The ruling was that the decision was lawful.
Judicial review can only address, in that sort of situation, whether the decision was reached through proper processes, or was actively irrational. Otherwise it is lawful even if the court disagrees with it. The court is deciding whether it is lawful, not whether it is a good decision. Parliament is sovereign. [Post edited 15 Jun 20:07]
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You will excuse my cynicism about an appeals judge digging around for half-remembered (and inaccurate) versions of Edwardian protest history to justify reversing the original trial judge's pretty reasonable opinion that the Home Secretary can't actually just decide someone is a terrorist whenever they feel like it. I'm sure the law was paramount here. [Post edited 16 Jun 12:19]
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| A good day for the Govt on 13:35 - Jun 16 with 154 views | redrickstuhaart |
| A good day for the Govt on 12:19 - Jun 16 by jayessess |
You will excuse my cynicism about an appeals judge digging around for half-remembered (and inaccurate) versions of Edwardian protest history to justify reversing the original trial judge's pretty reasonable opinion that the Home Secretary can't actually just decide someone is a terrorist whenever they feel like it. I'm sure the law was paramount here. [Post edited 16 Jun 12:19]
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Separate issue there.... |  |
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| A good day for the Govt on 14:43 - Jun 16 with 100 views | naa |
I don't see how the Social Media ban will work at all unfortunately.
Hiding children from the reality of the internet doesn't help them to deal with it.
Asking legal users to send personal documentation to some random website in the US (or God knows where) to prove their age doesn't seem great to me.
VPNs will easily circumvent the issue
Plenty of parents will just let their kids use it anyway
The cause needs to be tackled, not the symptom. Force companies to be responsible for their algorithms and the effects of them.
If the Gov insist on this route they need to provide a website to prove age to avoid you having to upload your passport to Mr Random. | | | |
| A good day for the Govt on 14:54 - Jun 16 with 90 views | Swansea_Blue |
| A good day for the Govt on 14:43 - Jun 16 by naa |
I don't see how the Social Media ban will work at all unfortunately.
Hiding children from the reality of the internet doesn't help them to deal with it.
Asking legal users to send personal documentation to some random website in the US (or God knows where) to prove their age doesn't seem great to me.
VPNs will easily circumvent the issue
Plenty of parents will just let their kids use it anyway
The cause needs to be tackled, not the symptom. Force companies to be responsible for their algorithms and the effects of them.
If the Gov insist on this route they need to provide a website to prove age to avoid you having to upload your passport to Mr Random. |
Agree with all of that. After a couple of high profile cases lately of people successfully suing these companies for damages, I was hoping we could be turning a corner. It would need the government to do a harder thing though by going after the companies.
I do think kids spend too long on screens; it’s not healthy. But there are benefits too in some cases where they’re accessing information that’s around hobbies or even support networks in some cases. A blanket ban gets rid of the good as well as the bad, and yes it seems unenforceable based on the Australian example.
And quite why YouTube is in there I’ve no idea.
And besides, the more immediate danger from social media is the unchecked spreading of conspiracies and radicalisation of adults. | |
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