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Wudi@feddit.uk to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days ago

White House urges UK not to ban social media for under-16s

www.theguardian.com

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White House urges UK not to ban social media for under-16s

www.theguardian.com

Wudi@feddit.uk to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days ago
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  • switcheroo@lemmy.world
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    Ofc the epstein class doesn’t want that. They’d lose out on children to victimize.

    • NM_Gringo@lemmy.world
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      15 days ago

      Is anyone thinking of the billionaire pedos? No, they’re only thinking about themselves.

  • SecretiveSailor@lemmy.world
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    Why do you have to ban social media? Its just an information stream. Its up to the user to not get addicted to it. Just like how its up to you to not get addicted to Snickers bars and turn in into a fatass

  • Miller@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Careful now your true motivations are showing.

    • magnetosphere@fedia.io
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      They don’t care

  • HM King Charles III DG FD@feddit.uk
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    Yanks out.

    • Z3k3@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      Its ok the money facebook and x lose will go to palantier and any number of American ai companies verifying your id though their systems

    • Telodzrum@lemmy.world
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      Yeah, the UK severing economic ties with others has gone really well recently. Let’s have more of that, right?

      • HM King Charles III DG FD@feddit.uk
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        EU insists that cars turn on a self-driving feature for lane keeping every ignition cycle. This is a dangerous feature causing cars to be jolted into obstacles.

        • Telodzrum@lemmy.world
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          Whatever you say, Mr. Farage.

          • HM King Charles III DG FD@feddit.uk
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            Farage would suck off donald for a bag quavers

  • magnetosphere@fedia.io
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    “American companies need access to all those impressionable, developing minds.”

  • ominous ocelot@leminal.space
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    There is a reason that gambling is regulated (in some countries). Why not do the same for addictive mechanisms in social media? You wouldn’t need to ban social media for children then. 🙄

    • nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world
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      Exactly. Adults can’t handle this trash very well either.

      • msage@programming.dev
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        One fucking horse armor at the beginning.

  • lime!@feddit.nu
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    i’m with donny boy here. instead of limiting what people can do, push regulation that forbid corporations from building the kind of software that is bad for your mental health. ban infinite scrolling features, algorithmic feeds, and dark patterns. make the fines equal or higher than gdpr because now it’s about people’s actual health.

    …that’s what they want instead, right?

    • Doomsider@lemmy.world
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      It is already against the law for them to keep data and market to children under 13 and they are supposed to get parents permission over 13. How quaint that you think that they would follow laws.

      • lime!@feddit.nu
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        then at least some more people will stop using them.

  • AuroraZzz@lemmy.world
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    How are the Christians gonna groom them if they get too old?

  • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
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    Whitehouse can fuck off

  • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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    “How will we be able to groom kids?”

  • ThePantser@sh.itjust.works
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    Of course, how else will the pedos find and abduct the kids. Social media makes their job easier.

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    It would be great to clip those over 78 from social media, too.

    Send Nana some actual photos.

    • Arachnidbrilliant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      My grandpa’s in his 90s and he never touched a computer. Whenever we’ve got photos we want to send to him. We have to print them out at Walgreens and then mail them to him. Lol

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    Shut up White House and deal with your own shit.

  • Lemmayng@lemmy.world
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    OH WON’T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE LUIGI TARGE-I MEAN SHILLIONAIRE TECH BROS?!

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    Fuck me I hate this so much because the UK just throwing mass surveillance on everything is hardly a win and that is the method they are looking at.

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