I dont like bans.
What’s happened to parents doing their ‘job’ (so to speak)? TVs and streaming feeds can already be altered with parental controls – are British parents not already doing this?
This creep creep of controls from government is dreadful.
There’s little hard evidence of the vast majority of kids being influenced by SM. It doesnt turn kids into dreadful humans, just as it does not do the same with the vast majority of adults. This decision has been driven by anecdotal high profile cases.
What government and campaigners have ignored is that teens have rebelled, experimented, defied, been creative, right thru the ages. They’ll rebel and find their own ways around it.
And if my grand kids want to watch youtube they can always pop around to grandad’s gaff.
EDIT:
Erm….there’s already The Online Safety Act 2023. Plenty in there for HMG to act upon, so do we assume HMG is NOT doing enough already, under existing legislation?