Online Safety Bill Etc

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

You are correct. We are changing the law for a minority of children who are vulnerable and should have better parental oversightat the expense of the majority, who know and understand right from wrong.

The correct solution is to ensure the social media companies employ safeguards. It can’t be that difficult.

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Richard, did you go to a State school? Remember the playground?

What’s the difference?

It's been discussed previously as to why leaving it to parental responsibility doesn't work.

Critics agree with your point about making social media companies responsible for safety instead of this ban. The trouble with this is that they tend to be located abroard and put profits before anything else & Ofcom would face the same issues when trying to enforce our laws onto them as they have found when trying to enforce over 18 legislation for porn sites thus far, if they don't comply.

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

It's been discussed previously as to why leaving it to parental responsibility doesn't work.

Critics agree with your point about making social media companies responsible for safety instead of this ban. The trouble with this is that they tend to be located abroard and put profits before anything else & Ofcom would face the same issues when trying to enforce our laws onto them as they have found when trying to enforce over 18 legislation for porn sites thus far, if they don't comply.

You don’t get it, Richard. Kids nowadays are familiar with VPNs and know how to circumvent the system.

What you have been advocating all this time will penalise adults, not kids.

A better solution than this is required.

Incidentally, on your point about internet security, my eldest daughter used to monitor her children’s use of the internet, and if they were sneakily trying to use it outside of the approved times, she would switch off the broadband.

It’s not rocket science.

[Carth]

What's going to happen in the next stage of this fiasco, you know, when 80% of the UK internet traffic is going through VPN's?

[peanut]

Originally Posted by Carth

What's going to happen in the next stage of this fiasco, you know, when 80% of the UK internet traffic is going through VPN's?

They'll call it a success and they'll say everything is working to plan.

[jem]

Originally Posted by Carth

What's going to happen in the next stage of this fiasco, you know, when 80% of the UK internet traffic is going through VPN's?

That would be a disaster for online safety and children’s private information - everything is being sent through some dodgy VPN provider, based, God knows where, offering a ‘free’ service - free, because?

See ‘Law of Unintended Consequences’!

But ‘peanut’ is right, the politicians will point to stats showing that very few under-16s are connecting to social media from UK-based IP addresses*; and laud it as a great success.

*Because they are all connecting from, apparently, somewhere in Azerbaijan!

[thenry]

I always remember PIA VPN when VPNs are discussed because they used "always use protection" as their slogan. Imagine ID requirements to buy condoms, contraception fall and birth giving on the rise. Proper labour that. Those college courses for young mothers were a hit during labours last tenure.