Okay I think we might be overreacting a little here.
jajay119 on
Streeting calls for action that’s already in progress to make it look like he’s doing something.
Revolutionary.
FlaviousTiberius on
True, I know at least three people who suffer from facebook kidney, and one who had a pretty awful death from an X related colon blockage. Sad stuff really, the government really needs to do something about this.
MondeyMondey on
“Miss, Miss! The bad kids are using Facebook behind the bike sheds Miss!”
PracticeNo8733 on
There’s no requirement to have your ID continuously linked to every instance of your tobacco consumption in the UK. What they’re actually calling for (well, doing) is something much more stringent and invasive than how we treat tobacco.
throwaway_ArBe on
So I should get my kid a pack of amber leaf as well as a vpn?
Fine_Swimmer_7343 on
Streetings naked ambition to become PM is disgusting…
He’s marketing himself as this leftist savour but his actions have always spoke to the opposite.
Andromidius on
Oh, only certain platforms? So some are perfectly okay, like some tobacco products?
Vapid man.
Salty-Bid1597 on
If it’s that bad why aren’t we controlling it for all adults?
The biggest irony is that politicians are some of the most terminally online folks out there.
My grandad spends like 7 hours a day, minimum on TikTok and constantly keeps refreshing several news sites to ghoulishly see if Trump has nuked Tehran. Yes we’ve been able to ween him off GBNews but only just. Contrast this to my 13 year old cousin, a painfully shy and introverted girl who finds it virtually impossible to socialise normally at school. Her one outlet is a group of likeminded recluses who talk about, draw and colour pictures of cats which she maybe spends an hour a day on.
Which is the bigger problem Wes? Seriously I hope this moon faced twat doesn’t become PM, there is a sinister air to him and his serious/concerned facial expression looks like the kind of Jack Russell that demands eye contact when it’s taking a shit.
Safe_Tea_Thirst on
Credit where credits due, in a world full of truly unlikeable politicians Wes Streeting manages to stand out above the majority as one of the scummy untrustworthy people in the game, quite an achievement
BusyBeeBridgette on
No thanks. Leave it to the parents. Don’t need the nanny state to become even more controlling.
Appropriate_Meal6868 on
I’m not saying that kids aren’t vulnerable to social media, but we have adults setting 5G towers on fire. Maybe we just need a better approach to teaching all ages about the dangers. Bans don’t work. There is always a way around everything. How many kids still manage to smoke and get vapes.
Clbull on
Burnham would smoke him like a Cuban cigar in a leadership contest.
Let’s please leave Streeting irrelevant.
mark71hy on
So they can’t learn the dangers of the unknown men your party is letting onto our streets, sounds about right for governments nowadays
CoiledPotency on
Society would be better served by banning retirees from social media than the kids whose entire social infrastructure we’ve set up to be fully dependent on the internet
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Okay I think we might be overreacting a little here.
Streeting calls for action that’s already in progress to make it look like he’s doing something.
Revolutionary.
True, I know at least three people who suffer from facebook kidney, and one who had a pretty awful death from an X related colon blockage. Sad stuff really, the government really needs to do something about this.
“Miss, Miss! The bad kids are using Facebook behind the bike sheds Miss!”
There’s no requirement to have your ID continuously linked to every instance of your tobacco consumption in the UK. What they’re actually calling for (well, doing) is something much more stringent and invasive than how we treat tobacco.
So I should get my kid a pack of amber leaf as well as a vpn?
Streetings naked ambition to become PM is disgusting…
He’s marketing himself as this leftist savour but his actions have always spoke to the opposite.
Oh, only certain platforms? So some are perfectly okay, like some tobacco products?
Vapid man.
If it’s that bad why aren’t we controlling it for all adults?
The biggest irony is that politicians are some of the most terminally online folks out there.
Reminder that you can still fill in the consultation. It would be good to have some saner voices. I pointed out that parental tools already exist but many do not know about them. https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/growing-up-in-the-online-world-a-national-consultation
How about 55+ ban on boomerbook
Your nan believes everything on there is gospel
My grandad spends like 7 hours a day, minimum on TikTok and constantly keeps refreshing several news sites to ghoulishly see if Trump has nuked Tehran. Yes we’ve been able to ween him off GBNews but only just. Contrast this to my 13 year old cousin, a painfully shy and introverted girl who finds it virtually impossible to socialise normally at school. Her one outlet is a group of likeminded recluses who talk about, draw and colour pictures of cats which she maybe spends an hour a day on.
Which is the bigger problem Wes? Seriously I hope this moon faced twat doesn’t become PM, there is a sinister air to him and his serious/concerned facial expression looks like the kind of Jack Russell that demands eye contact when it’s taking a shit.
Credit where credits due, in a world full of truly unlikeable politicians Wes Streeting manages to stand out above the majority as one of the scummy untrustworthy people in the game, quite an achievement
No thanks. Leave it to the parents. Don’t need the nanny state to become even more controlling.
I’m not saying that kids aren’t vulnerable to social media, but we have adults setting 5G towers on fire. Maybe we just need a better approach to teaching all ages about the dangers. Bans don’t work. There is always a way around everything. How many kids still manage to smoke and get vapes.
Burnham would smoke him like a Cuban cigar in a leadership contest.
Let’s please leave Streeting irrelevant.
So they can’t learn the dangers of the unknown men your party is letting onto our streets, sounds about right for governments nowadays
Society would be better served by banning retirees from social media than the kids whose entire social infrastructure we’ve set up to be fully dependent on the internet