General News Thread

[UniFox21]

28 minutes ago, fox_up_north said:

This really is completely the wrong way to go about it. Regulate infinite scrolling and stuff appearing on your feed that you didn't sign up for. Oh, and educated parents that it's not ok to give a 4 year old a smart phone.  

 

This is either completely misguided with many consequences they can't see (which loads can) or it's insidious invasions of privacy in action. 

I don't think there's a right way to go about it, whatever they brought in would have consequences currently unseen. People will get around whatever is brought in somehow, with it being incredibly difficult to actually blanket ban anything

 

 

[fox_up_north]

12 minutes ago, Super_horns said:

I work in retail and they all have phones with cards on to tap with etc so they are probably more technically advanced than some adults .

 

And presumably won’t be able to be banned from schools as parents will say their kids need them to keep in contact if something happens .

The "I need to contact my kids" argument completely falls over when presented with grooming gangs, county lines and continued self harm. 

 

I've never bought it and it's just a way for parents to keep up with the Jones'. The way this changes is like cutting smoking rates - at a cultural level.

[Innovindil]

12 minutes ago, Super_horns said:

I work in retail and they all have phones with cards on to tap with etc so they are probably more technically advanced than some adults .

 

And presumably won’t be able to be banned from schools as parents will say their kids need them to keep in contact if something happens .

This bit really pees me off. I understand it completely. But why not get your kid a cheap £5 phone for texting and ringing and leave the smartphone at home. 

 

Wouldn't want my kids lugging around 100s of quid worth of phone anyways, if they are owt like their dad it'll end up smashed/lost within a week. 

[nnfox]

1 hour ago, kenny said:

They needed to look at smart phones and tablets for children rather than social media imo.

 

Doom scrolling starts with 2 year olds being addicted to dopamine hits from scrolling images and needing constant high stimulation media from a young age. 

 

Social ban will probably do little, but if it moves towards an age ban on smart phones and tablets then it's a good thing.

This 100%. @kenny for PM.

[kenny]

2 minutes ago, nnfox said:

This 100%. @kenny for PM.

Other posters would disagree with this post....

[leicsmac]

2 hours ago, fox_favourite said:

Fart mans reflection pool has turned green already from the algae returning. That was millions dollar worth spending for a few days . I think that reflection pool is so badly designed you can't fix it. 

"Leftists sabotaged it", apparently. 

[orangecity23]

This social media ban is very vague about what platforms are involved 

 

"An exhaustive list of which platforms the ban will apply to has not been released. However the government said it would apply to those "whose purpose is to enable social interaction and which allow users to post material"." (BBC)

 

Will this mean it's going to apply to all forums like this? Could be ruinous for small forums, they don't have the resources to pay companies like Yoti to do age verification for a small handful of users.

 

[Zear0]

This is a good thing. No doubt there are ways around it, just like sending my bearded friend into Victoria Wine for booze when we were at school, but that is not reason to not implement this.

 

As Nandy said the other day, these companies have had years to sort the poison on their platforms out and done sod all. If Musk and co. claim their platforms are media, then they needed to be responsible for the content they hosted.

[The Bear]

The successful ban on smartphones in schools still allow basic "brick" phones for contact with parents etc, so that's not a valid excuse.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgmdg38jl1jo

Edited 39 minutes ago by The Bear

[Lionator]

2 hours ago, leicsmac said:

He's certainly a far cry from a high ranking government official claiming that every single person of colour in the US is "illegal", as one Greg Bovino did recently. 

He’s just showing there’s a different way of doing things and he’s so good at it. And so kind to everyone.