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UK PM Starmer set to ban 'harmful' social media for under-16s
- dotcoma 4mo ago"God knows what it's doing to our children", as they used to say about LSD. But those were better times.
- FlippieFinance 4mo agoI think everyone under 17 should just stick to a lovely Nintendo! Makes your youth 10x better
- emayljames 4mo agoThis is all a smokescreen, to force queer kids out of having online community. As a queer kid, it is a lifeline, the government knows this and they are bowing to extreme xtian groups. The irony is, it is the boomers that have serious (anti-)social media problems. They are being manipulated enmass
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- tangotaylor 4mo agoAgreed. The Heritage Foundation even admitted it when promoting KOSA: "Keeping trans content away from children is protecting kids." And I think a lot of this is projection from parents who massively struggle with social media. It's quite telling that Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who is aligned with the Christian right, and whose job as press secretary was to be a meat shield for Trump's incompetence and absorb all the anger from the press and social media, sent a copy of The Anxious Generation to governors in all US states.