"[Children are] spending so many hours a day on platforms that are profiting from their anxiety, their distraction" Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch wants to ban under 16's from social media and admits she finds Instagram "addictive" #BBCLauraK

The Tory computer hacker says what??

What Kemi isn’t telling you is that she is advocating for Digital ID and lack of anonymity online by saying this.

We’re obsessed with banning things. Seems to be the answer to everything. Can no one think of any other solutions?

Can we ban the computer hacker from TV channels?

How about the parents doing it, if they want, and the state staying the fuck out of their lives?

all you parents have to do is say "NO" to your child when they want a smart phone

Children are getting raped by grooming gangs and undocumented foreign invaders. How about concentrating on that ?

Terrible idea that won’t stop kids communicating online but will force everyone to submit their personal data to access communication forums . A precursor to the push for digital ID

FFS 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

I genuinely can’t fathom people having an issue with this. It literally impacts and stunts brain development. Parents are not parenting and protecting their children. Social media is so harmful to growing kids and as Kemi rightly says is developed and designed to be addictive

We dont need government over reach to bring up our children. Nor the government wasting money we havent got, for projects the kids would have a work around in an hour, if they really wanted to bypass controls. Its about control, and we are not interested, thanks but no thanks.

@Conservatives didn't learn a thing by getting dumped at the last election. The uni-party wants to control you. I'll vote for freedom of choice - small government - low taxes - cutting the red tape - and a government who will get out of our lives and get out of the way.

They just don't get it to they? Stop telling people what they can and can't do.

You can now just look at Australia just to see how much of a stupid and farcical idea it is.

I'm a writer in Japan who works to raise awareness about smartphone addiction. I agree with this opinion! Social media is bad for children. It's a serious problem worldwide. We need to do a digitaldetox. It's enough for kids to just contact their parents via Dumbphone #bbclaurak

shove it where the sun doesnt shine Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke Badenoch you do not get to tell people what they can and cant do thank god you,ll never see no 10

I agree with Kemi

@bbclaurak Badenoch can’t avoid telling the public your party’s stance on Greenland because you deem it a ‘secondary’ issue. But by not answering we have to guess the Conservatives are in favour of Trump annexing a NATO partner’s territory. That is not only spineless it’s sickening

Yet Kemi is happy to go into schools and tell students that University is very overrated and that they should consider apprenticeships, that immigrants are all criminals and should be deported by an ICE-style force.

Or simply expect parents to do THEIR job! No more nanny state & in actual fact, just pushing the same old crap Labour are. Good ole' uni party 🤮

BBC’s disgraced Huw Edwards is a monster on the loose, what message does this send out to victims.👮🏻‍♂️

Conservatives are just as bad as labour, banning everything isn't the answer to the problems, both the uniparty repeat the same rhetoric!.

@KemiBadenoch what's with obsession all of a sudden. WEF puppet like keir. We see right through you

@KemiBadenoch why didn't the @Conservatives do anything about it between 2010 - 2024 you know when you were in power?

@KemiBadenoch I would have considered voting but this is the UK and not China. Moddy Coddling and Nanny state. Reform it is.

Lightweight political thinker. Had no thoughtful or progressive ideas on issues on the pressing questions of world politics and defending her ignorance with lack of access in information….her response to digital is naive and simplistic based around her own family members.

No thanks. They need to stop banning stuff.

Is that because she didn't use social media when she was under 16? Oh that's right, she lived in Nigeria!

WEF fcking shill,starmers back up

These bans ignore all the good that smartphones provide to many teenagers - access to friends, to knowledge and to help.

Funny how the party that could not fix schools, policing, councils or growth now says it will “fix” parenting by banning the under 16s from the modern world.

And your Gov did F all to put any legislation in place in 14 years

She can relate to this issue, after all she has a mental age of about 12.