| Social media ban for under 16’s 08:16 - Jun 15 with 14992 views | loftboy |
Personally I agree with it. But is it going to be easy to monitor, of course it isn’t. |  |
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| Social media ban for under 16’s on 13:03 - Jun 15 with 1666 views | KensalT |
| Social media ban for under 16’s on 12:48 - Jun 15 by derbyhoop |
Age verification is for U16s Not over 60s  |
There's now a setting on my smartphone asking me to confirm that I'm over 18.
I've had the same account for over 20 years!
So I Ignore it.
But who is really collecting all this data and why? |  | | |
| Social media ban for under 16’s on 13:19 - Jun 15 with 1600 views | johncharles |
| Social media ban for under 16’s on 12:20 - Jun 15 by daveB |
They can't can't smoke, drink or drive a car |
But WE did didn’t we ……. |  |
| Strong and stable my arse. |
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| Social media ban for under 16’s on 13:27 - Jun 15 with 1581 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
One tiny welcome cog in what is the biggest attack on democracy in our lifetimes (misinformation)
Adult brain rot is the more dangerous issue.
The evils of Social (and traditional!) media start and end with the private ownership model. |  | | |
| Social media ban for under 16’s on 13:31 - Jun 15 with 1568 views | slmrstid |
| Social media ban for under 16’s on 10:12 - Jun 15 by ted_hendrix |
I've just watched a Woman walking her dog, She stops and gets her phone out of her pocket and her thumb Is whizzing up and down the screen whilst her dog just stares up at her. They move on and after about Ten feet the same thing happens again.
It's insanity, what or why on earth are people doing texting each other In the morning?
There should be a social media ban on people under the age of 98 Years old.
Groups of People standing outside bloody shop doorways blocking the entrance talking or texting shyte to each other.
Phones should have a device built into them whereby If the user Is texting or talking crap about nail bloody varnish or table cloths then the phone explodes killing them. |
Re your dog walker Ted, I frequently go into blokes toilets and find men stood at a urinal with their phone out in one hand scrolling, knob in the other drizzling away.
I find it bonkers, is the attention span that short? |  | | |
| Social media ban for under 16’s on 13:40 - Jun 15 with 1522 views | bullshootr |
| Social media ban for under 16’s on 13:31 - Jun 15 by slmrstid |
Re your dog walker Ted, I frequently go into blokes toilets and find men stood at a urinal with their phone out in one hand scrolling, knob in the other drizzling away.
I find it bonkers, is the attention span that short? |
Are you absolutely sure that was drizzle  | | | |
| Social media ban for under 16’s on 13:41 - Jun 15 with 1519 views | OakR |
I'm happy with this.
Pretty easy to police as a parent, if you want to. Things like family link on google make it easy already to monitor and restrcit your child's time on social media - I imagine with this change it would block them by default.
Obviously some kids will still access various social media, but much less will do. It needs parents to be involved as well. | |
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| Social media ban for under 16’s on 14:53 - Jun 15 with 1449 views | R_from_afar |
| Social media ban for under 16’s on 08:46 - Jun 15 by dmm |
It may be the right thing to do. Time will tell.
But, why is it that the victims of social media abuse are effectively penalised while those who enable it, namely Meta, X, Snapchat, TikTok etc, are allowed to continue their nefarious work?
As is so often the case, money and power control the decisions. |
Re your second paragraph, the reason is a piece of legislation passed 30 years ago, when the Internet was in short trousers and Bill Clinton was in the oval office. It's called section 230 and absolves platform providers of any responsibility for content shared on their infrastructure. They are legally protected.
The good news is that law may be about to change:
https://theconversation.com/la |  |
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| Social media ban for under 16’s on 14:59 - Jun 15 with 1436 views | flynnbo |
| Social media ban for under 16’s on 13:31 - Jun 15 by slmrstid |
Re your dog walker Ted, I frequently go into blokes toilets and find men stood at a urinal with their phone out in one hand scrolling, knob in the other drizzling away.
I find it bonkers, is the attention span that short? |
Are you in there for any particular reason though?  |  | | |
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| Social media ban for under 16’s on 15:10 - Jun 15 with 1402 views | E17hoop |
No one has been able to answer this yet - if these platforms are so harmful, why does the govt still use them for comms? |  |
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| Social media ban for under 16’s on 15:21 - Jun 15 with 1382 views | wombat |
| Social media ban for under 16’s on 09:19 - Jun 15 by Northernr |
Good idea in principal, completely unworkable in practice I reckon. |
How badly will this affect this seasons we love nourry campaign is the biug question ? |  |
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| Social media ban for under 16’s on 15:41 - Jun 15 with 1361 views | BostonR |
| Social media ban for under 16’s on 10:35 - Jun 15 by BazzaInTheLoft |
Looking at the response to this on Twitter, it seems even a trillion dollars isn't enough to make Elon Musk happy. |
Musk is not long for this world.
He’s the J.D. Rockefeller of our times. You don’t march around the globe attempting to shape society and governments in a way that he sees fit and proper without deadly repercussions.
He’s a full on megalomaniac with psychotic tendencies all fuelled by various potions. |  | | |
| Social media ban for under 16’s on 15:54 - Jun 15 with 1315 views | Orthodox_Hoop |
Agree with Clive - not a chance of this ban in sheep's clothing working in practice.
Rockefeller went on to live until the ripe old age of 97 btw. |  | | |
| Social media ban for under 16’s on 16:58 - Jun 15 with 1249 views | Jigsore |
They can start by banning the over 60s that radicalise themselves on social media and wonder why their children don't talk to them.
All you have to do is go on Facebook or X to see the irascible grey hordes living in parallel universes. |  | | |
| Social media ban for under 16’s on 17:02 - Jun 15 with 1242 views | Sonic_Hoop |
| Social media ban for under 16’s on 13:03 - Jun 15 by KensalT |
There's now a setting on my smartphone asking me to confirm that I'm over 18.
I've had the same account for over 20 years!
So I Ignore it.
But who is really collecting all this data and why? |
It's Peter Thiel and the Dark Enlightenment, probably.
Sounds like a contemporary prog band, but it isn't. |  | | |
| Social media ban for under 16’s on 17:51 - Jun 15 with 1188 views | TwoHalves |
| Social media ban for under 16’s on 10:12 - Jun 15 by ted_hendrix |
I've just watched a Woman walking her dog, She stops and gets her phone out of her pocket and her thumb Is whizzing up and down the screen whilst her dog just stares up at her. They move on and after about Ten feet the same thing happens again.
It's insanity, what or why on earth are people doing texting each other In the morning?
There should be a social media ban on people under the age of 98 Years old.
Groups of People standing outside bloody shop doorways blocking the entrance talking or texting shyte to each other.
Phones should have a device built into them whereby If the user Is texting or talking crap about nail bloody varnish or table cloths then the phone explodes killing them. |
It’s already happened, Ted. Hezbollah won’t be talking crap about nail varnish or table cloths anymore, that’s for sure. | | | |
| Social media ban for under 16’s on 18:08 - Jun 15 with 1165 views | TwoHalves |
Yet Ian Russell, father of Molly Russell, the poor lass who took her own life at the age of 14 after viewing harmful content online, has condemned the government’s decision: “A sledgehammer to crack a nut”, he’s saying.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/art
One thing’s for sure though; none of the trillionaires will settle for being mere billionaires if they’re not forced to. After all, it’s not their job to keep children safe online. | | | |
| (No subject) (n/t) on 18:38 - Jun 15 with 1113 views | stevec |
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| Social media ban for under 16’s on 19:22 - Jun 15 with 1046 views | Gus_iom |
| Social media ban for under 16’s on 15:41 - Jun 15 by BostonR |
Musk is not long for this world.
He’s the J.D. Rockefeller of our times. You don’t march around the globe attempting to shape society and governments in a way that he sees fit and proper without deadly repercussions.
He’s a full on megalomaniac with psychotic tendencies all fuelled by various potions. |
George Soros has. | |
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| Social media ban for under 16’s on 19:28 - Jun 15 with 1026 views | Gus_iom |
| Social media ban for under 16’s on 13:27 - Jun 15 by BazzaInTheLoft |
One tiny welcome cog in what is the biggest attack on democracy in our lifetimes (misinformation)
Adult brain rot is the more dangerous issue.
The evils of Social (and traditional!) media start and end with the private ownership model. |
So state-controlled media is always factual and unbiased?
I absolutely support the (unworkable) ban, but it has to include blue-sky as well. | |
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| Social media ban for under 16’s on 19:52 - Jun 15 with 969 views | Sonic_Hoop |
| Social media ban for under 16’s on 19:22 - Jun 15 by Gus_iom |
George Soros has. |
Seriously. | | | |
| Social media ban for under 16’s on 19:53 - Jun 15 with 969 views | dmm |
| Social media ban for under 16’s on 19:28 - Jun 15 by Gus_iom |
So state-controlled media is always factual and unbiased?
I absolutely support the (unworkable) ban, but it has to include blue-sky as well. |
Why did you single out Bluesky? Rather intrigued by that. |  | | |
| Social media ban for under 16’s on 19:57 - Jun 15 with 960 views | kensalriser |
| Social media ban for under 16’s on 19:22 - Jun 15 by Gus_iom |
George Soros has. |
Soros is a fckn saint compared to Musk, Thiel and all the rest of the billionaire fascists. |  |
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| Social media ban for under 16’s on 20:03 - Jun 15 with 946 views | PunteR |
Chatting to my oldest son, who has a two year old daughter and he said he's relieved that she wont have access to social media growing up.
I think its a good thing and gives responsible parents a bit more leeway in trying to keep their kids off social media. Snap chat is the worst of them all , in my experience.
I agree , its going to be impossible to police it all the time, but its a step in the right direction. |  |
| Occasional providers of half decent House music. |
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| Social media ban for under 16’s on 20:09 - Jun 15 with 935 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
| Social media ban for under 16’s on 19:28 - Jun 15 by Gus_iom |
So state-controlled media is always factual and unbiased?
I absolutely support the (unworkable) ban, but it has to include blue-sky as well. |
I neither said that state media is factual and unbiased, that it should be the only ownership model, or that Bluesky should be exempt.
Bluesky is still a commercial enterprise with a huge influencer of democracy.
https://www.ima.press/ | | | |
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