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If it wasn’t so unbelieveably controlling it would be laughable. It is being reported that not only do the government want to ban ALL social media use for under 16’s but they now also want to introduce a night time CURFEW for social media media use for 16 and...

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“We’ve got a current Labour government headed by Keir Starmer at the moment and potentially in future headed by Andy Burnham makes no difference because both of them appear to have the same view on this and therefore the Labour government’s view won’t change and that is that they’ve decided that they can ban 16 year olds from accessing social media due to the vulnerability of their minds and how social media may well indeed manipulate their minds and due to that vulnerability. The Labour Party doesn’t want 16 or under accessing social media. Meanwhile, an 11 year old, according to the Labour Party, does have the mental capacity to decide that they are not a boy or that they are not a girl, that they’ve been born in the wrong body and that they can irreversibly alter the way that their body grows their sexual organs by stopping and blocking puberty chemically. So an 11 year old can make that decision. But at the same time, a 16 or 15 year old can’t access social media. It is a very, very strange position that the Labour government has taken, explained by the facts, of course, as you saw Andy Burnham there giving £100,000 as a grant as mayor of Manchester to an organisation that was lobbying for this change. Also explained by the fact that Keir Starmer and the Labour government clearly don’t care about the mental wellbeing of children, otherwise they wouldn’t be allowing 11 year olds to block their own puberty. And so this online safety in 16 year olds, what that’s really about is introducing digital ID for every single citizen by stealth, using the name of the children and protecting the children as the excuse.” Maajid Nawaz for WARRIOR CREED

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Our General Secretary, Lord Young of Acton, just made a speech at the second reading of the Representation of the People Bill which will lower the voting age to 16. He pointed out that if 16 year-olds are to be given the vote, a blanket ban on under-16s accessing social media doesn't make sense since platforms like TikTok are where 12-15 year-olds get their news. How can they be expected to make an informed choice about who to vote for when they reach the age of 16 if they've been banned from those sites? And what about the content that social media platforms are currently age-gating at the behest of Ofcom, such as Katie Lam's speech in the House of Commons about the grooming gangs, which you cannot watch on social media unless you prove you're an adult? It makes no sense to prevent 16 and 17 year-olds from being able to watch speeches in the House of Commons if they're going to be given the vote. The solution, according to Lord Young, is to activate the 'keep up' duties in the Online Safety Act so social media companies cannot remove content of democratic importance (s17), news publisher content (s18) and journalistic content (s19). While all the 'take down' duties in the Online Safety Act have been activated, many of the free speech safeguards in the Act have not. When Ofcom finally gets round to activating those duties, he concluded, it should make it clear to social media platforms that people of all ages — particularly 16 and 17 year-olds — should be able to access that vital democratic content. Watch Lord Young below 👇

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The Free Speech Union has serious concerns about the Government’s proposal to ban under-16s from some social media platforms (but not others). When the proposal was first announced, ministers cited supposedly 'harmful' platforms such as X, Facebook and YouTube, but made no mention of the left-leaning Bluesky. A selective ban, rather than a blanket one, means Ofcom will be tasked with enforcing the political preferences of whichever government happens to be in power. If there's a change of government, will X be taken off the banned list and Bluesky put in its place? Another concern is enforcement. How exactly does the Government intend to make the ban work in practice? In Australia — the model ministers appear keen to follow — many under-16s continue to access social media through VPNs. Will the Government’s next step be to ban VPNs as well? That would put the UK in the same company as Turkmenistan, Iran and North Korea. The Government has also failed to explain how this proposal can be reconciled with its duties under the Online Safety Act to protect content of democratic importance and journalistic content — duties that are due to come into force next month. This is particularly important given the Government’s intention to extend some social media restrictions to 16 and 17 year-olds and at the same time lower the voting age to 16. How can 16 and 17 year-olds be expected to participate meaningfully in the democratic process if the Government is restricting the content of democratic importance and the journalistic content they're able to access? The Free Speech Union will be keeping a wary eye on the Government’s plans 👇

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