Tech-Bosse drohen mit Gefängnis, da die Regierung den Zugang von Kindern zu sozialen Medien unterbindet

Funny that “dangerous stunts” is included on the list of harms.
This entire thing is a dangerous stunt.

I find everyone changing the subject to water companies are kinda missing the point.

Look through my post history if you want to see my thoughts on the water companies… Tl;Dr I’m not fucking happy, but there are real talking points here and it’s a governments job to deal with more than one thing at a time.

Anyone with kids will tell you how much social media is changing the way they live compared to 20-30 years ago, it’s insane how quickly they have to grow up and learn to deal with adult emotions, adult content, critical thinking.

These kids are the future of our country and social media is playing an active role in controlling how they think.

AND YES of course it is the parents job to keep them safe and educate them, but there is reality and then there is ideal reality. You don’t have to be a smart, responsible person to have kids and we’re never going to improve baseline without government oversight.

I support the idea that children shouldn’t be using social media but I also acknowledge that the government is absolutely clueless on how any of this actually works.

>Tech bosses threatened with jail

I always enjoy this “Britain still rules the world damnit” mentality that the foamy mouth patriots always like to scream from their soap-boxes. The fact remains that the United Kingdom does not operate or own a single social media company of any significant size so therefore it has no legal powers over the acts of an individual living outside its own borders.

Sure they could drag the bosses at UK offices to jail as a representation of their “might” (but for the safety of their staff the companies would simply close all their offices and employ mass redundancies as a solution).

They could also attempt extradition, but we couldn’t even get Harry Dunn’s killer pulled over here (and after all of our so-called amazing “soft-power” all she got after years of pushing for a trial, got a suspended sentance so waddled away scott-free). If a clown who can’t be arsed to drive on the right side of the road because it’s unamerican can murder in public and skip into the sunset, do you really think America or China are going to allow their wealthiest citizens (with godlike influence and power) to be put in the clink on some has-been island that cut itself off from its greatest power partner because of a loud mouth spouting bullshit with a pint in his hand?

Don’t get me wrong, social media in general is a parasite, and toxic, and we could do worse than just blanket ban the lot of them for peace and quiet. But us waving our fists and claiming from thousands of miles away “we’ll get you good, we have OfCom” is fucking hilarious.

Why can’t parents just remove smartphones from children? Will teach them mindfulness a lot more.