Improve education? No!
4day workweek at same pay to give more time for parenting? No!
Tax the rich and their wealth to expand social services and improve education? Also no!
Invade all our privacy with a measure easily circumvented? Ding ding ding! Winner winner 🏆!
How do these people look at themselves in the mirror and think they are looking at a good person???
Isolating young people from, in many cases, their only way to participate in communities of people they have anything in common with is supposed to be good for them? Reduce suicide rates?
Even disregarding the privacy problems, it’s just an evil idea in the first place. The Internet is exactly (!) where young people belong.
If we were talking about the internet of 2005 I would agree but sadly that’s not the internet we have today.
And are we going to get closer to the Internet of 2005 by adding government regulation?
I agree with you that today’s commercial “social media” isn’t great and probably does cause psychological harm to at least some young people.
But any government regulation will only serve to make sure no one can build any forum or platform without enough revenue to cover compliance costs.
Wow just burning down the forest for the trees. We need to impose these controls to have control. How do you expect anything to get better without us, the people who have always been in charge of this beautiful thriving world, in charge of the internet too?
hey starmer it wasn’t social media that killed brianna ghey it was the culture of transphobia peddled by your own government you fucking ghoul.
Okay that doesn’t seem like a way to lose an election blamelessly. Would you like to rephrase that in a more transphobic way and try talking to the prime minister again? Perhaps explain how it would stop the boats or bring down petrol prices?
Brianna Ghey was murdered over a year before Labour took government. There also wasn’t any suggestion that she died because of social media, this is a completely separate issue.
Oh look… turns out that that the greatest perpetrators of child abuse is still - drumroll, please - parents!
Golly gee! Who coulda thunk it? I do wonder which part of the other 24% qualifies as “internet”?
But then again… unlike the internet, child abuse does not threaten western liberalism’s most precious little genocidal white supremacist settler-colonialism project in the middle-east with truth - so that doesn’t concern liberal génocidaires like Starmer.
