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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
I'm not sure that the Tories would do this for electioneering purposes. A lot of Tories don't like state involvement of citizens lives.
Lots of laws aren't fit for purpose and/or cannot easily be enforced, bur it doesn't stop Parliament from passing them.
MP's could choose to amend the Online Safety Act to ban U16's from having an adult smartphone and some parents could decide to break the law and still allow them to have one.
In practice it's unlikely that they would be caught, particularly if phones are banned in schools. Sure, some will be caught if they decide to utilise spot checks, but I imagine that most will be caught when something goes wrong eg murder, child sex abuse and it's found that the child had access to social media.
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I'd like to know what you think about that 14 years old knows how to access the Dark Web. And how you think that should be regulated?
Do you think restricting mobile phones is going to change anything? Take the Brianna murder, (Quoted from the Guardian) - 'They had “massive battles” over Brianna’s mobile phone, she said, with Brianna changing her passcode on her 16th birthday so that her mother could not check up on her.' - So what would happen if you take a phone away from someone highly vulnerable? How does a parent of someone highly vulnerable work around that? Easy to say, impossible to do don't you think?
If someone wants to search or find something, there's no way you can stop them, no matter what age they are or whatever restrictions you put upon them.