The Guardian reports that Labour is set to expand its social media ban for under-16s to cover a wide range of educational platforms and others. So YouTube Kids isn’t protected after all…
Ministers are looking to expand the ban beyond its initial Starmer remit to avoid loopholes and have been told “teenagers and groomers can find innovative ways to communicate on platforms that allow unknown or anonymous user messaging.” It was always going to go this way…
E-commerce sites are set to be banned, but they aren’t the only ones. Set to get the chop are:
Labour’s iron curtain falls over the internet…
Lucy Powell told Sky News that the Ed Miliband-Russell Brand interview happened in part because the ‘social media age’ had not begun by 2015:
“Look, I mean, he approached the Labour Party, he approached the campaign team, and we’re in very different times now. We weren’t in the social media age at the time – where you could maybe search things up and see allegations about somebody at the time. and as I say, if there was any suggestion at all, we were dealing with someone who was a known sexual predator at the time, then, of course, you know, no one would have done that. But as I say, he was a well known public figure. Lots of people from Hollywood to the BBC to many others gave this person a very, very powerful platform. And we didn’t know at the time, unfortunately. It was a different era.”