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Old 11-06-2024, 02:48   #764
RichardCoulter
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Re: Online Safety Bill

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Originally Posted by GrimUpNorth View Post
You maybe just maybe seem to be just a teeny weeny little bit obsessed with the subject.
The Online Safety Act has given Ofcom the power to protect vulnerable people from harm and has rightly focused on children first.

We all have a duty/responsibility to protect children from harm and prevention is better than cure, so i'm really pleased that Fleetwood Enforcers are publicising Stop It Now.

I wouldn't say i'm obsessed with the subject, though it is fair to say that it's a subject close to my heart for reasons i'd rather not go into.

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Originally Posted by Paul View Post
For the record, the phone system is not anonymous, digital calls can be traced quite easily.

How about getting back to the topic, I fail to see how that post is usedful to anyone on this forum.
Paedophiles/Hebophiles exist in all walks of life and are obviously not going to publicise their private thoughts about this.

I think that the 'anonymous' promise is in relation to the information they give to the call handler.

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This is just starting. I'm afraid I'll have to listen to it tomorrow as i'm really tired, but it looks like Ireland is also becoming concerned about young people & their smartphone use.

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Greystones made global headlines a year ago when, concerned by rising anxiety levels among their pupils, the headteachers from all the primary schools in the town invited parents to sign a voluntary pact or code; not to buy their child a smartphone before they moved up to secondary school. In Ireland that’s usually at age 12. Beth McLeod talks to teachers, pupils and parents about their reaction to the initiative. Has there been any backlash? At one of the town’s secondary schools she meets an assistant headteacher who is passionately demanding a culture change around phone use for older students too, warning parents that although they think they are giving their children access to the internet, they are really giving the internet access to their children. She speaks to teenagers about their views on what is the right age to be on social media and asks the Irish Health Minister what the government is doing to hold tech companies to account.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct5mss
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