Under-16s to be banned from social media by next spring, Starmer says
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Under-16s will be banned from using social media, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced.

Starmer says social media is making children unhappy, making it easier for bullies to abuse children, and is “designed to be addictive”. A ban would give children more time, security, and more freedom to grow up - as well as more opportunities, he adds.

“That is all any parent wants. They want to know that Britain will be better for their children, that they will get a fair chance,” the PM says in a speech in Downing Street.

Starmer adds that the government is “not prepared to compromise” on the safety and happiness of children - and that includes in the regulation and enforcement of this ban. He says the government has listened to and learned from countries like Australia, where a similar ban has already been introduced.

  • myrmidexAEnglish
    28·
    7 days ago

    Capitalism always trends toward fascism, this is nothing new.

    • Zombie@feddit.ukEnglish
      28·
      7 days ago

      Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.

      • Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician

      https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tommy_Douglas

      • yucandu@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        6 days ago

        You don’t press a button and an old society disappears and a new one is born next morning at seven o’clock. Society is changed organically, you slough off the old and the new takes the place. You do what you can for people and work for change. And I don’t mind how hard people want to push. But I’ve no patience with people who want to sit back and talk about a blueprint for society and do nothing about it. I got that in Chicago.

        • Also Tommy Douglas
      • myrmidexAEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        Absolutely! I did not want to lessen the conclusion, instead I urge to look at the historic and economic context so it becomes clear this is no accident.