We need a social media ban for under-16s, police chiefs say

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1. Because children needed an excuse to disrespect the police, didn’t they?

2. Not a ban. They’ll work around it.

   A different experience for under 16s, with proper supervision tools for parents.

3. We don’t need a ban, but under 16s should have a different experience altogether. Let’s start by limiting algorithmic content suggestions. I also think there should be safeguards in place so that for younger children, parents would need to set up child accounts linked to parent accounts. And be able to access activity logs and such for their child (Within reason. The child should still have some privacy by default)

4. Why do they always just want to ban everything? Is it because they can’t come up with any actual ideas?

5. How on earth will they enforce it?

   The only I think I can think is this might actually help some of the older social media companies like Facebook.

   Whilst Facebook is now for your mum and your gran you are already posting elsewhere. Making Facebook illegal might actually make them want to go on it.

6. Banning things demonstrably doesn’t work, time and time and time again

7. Feels like a lot of the panic around social media (some of it justified, some not) would be solved by the government putting more regulation on algorithms. Would piss off the tech companies by nerfing their main source of revenue though so it would never happen.

8. I’m for it, social media reddit included is destroying society and bringing is quickly into a zero trust society

9. We get this every few weeks, another “uneducated” bureaucrat, or Helicopter parent going on TV or before some MP and screeching

   “Wahhhhhhh, Wahhhhh Regulate social media, Waaaaaah Ban it for under XYZ age! Waaaaaaah!

   Someone really needs to pull them to one side and explain to them in words of 3 syllables or less that what they are asking for is simply not possible due to the nature of the internet, you can ban it in any number of ways, but for every ban there will be multiple work rounds.

10. Disagree.

    We just need parents to step up and act like parents.

11. >I hear a lot of arguments that there is no connection between violent imagery and people committing violence. I don’t believe that for a moment after 30 years of policing

    Plod thinks all the research data is wrong because he doesn’t understand that his experience of dealing with violent criminals has no non-violent control group.

12. this is the kind of shit they should of done back in the 2010’s when was on the rise.

13. Or you know, parents could set up parental controls on their kids phones.

14. I wish I could click my fingers and all children magically couldn’t access (most of) the internet and all of social media. But I can’t, and a flat ban alone won’t do much. With no exaggeration at this point the only thing that could work is a worldwide cultural effort to stop children being glued to iPads and social media but that is not happening anytime soon.

    I’m sorry kids but you will have a screen shoved 10cm from your face pumping mind numbing algorithmic slop at all times and with no exaggeration have your neuron’s be irreversibly damaged beyond repair.

15. Do you really think they’re not gonna find a way around that?

    What we need is a mass propaganda campaign containing Mr. Blobby.

    Put it on YouTube, tiktok, CBBC, everywhere.

    Mr blobby will appear if you hang about on social media for too long.

    Turn it off.

    NOW GO TO BED

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