The National Education Union – run by socialist Daniel Kebede – is now campaigning for a ban on social media for children under the age of 16. Pointless…
Kebede says in the Guardian that the UK should follow Denmark:
“Children in the UK should be offered the same protection from voracious social media companies that the Danish government has committed to providing (Denmark plans social media ban for under-15s as PM warns phones ‘stealing childhood’, 7 October) so that we can put a stop to the immense damage they are wreaking.
The crisis they have created is why we launched our campaign calling for exactly that, and we are not alone in wanting action – 70% of the UK public believe that social media companies are robbing children and young people of their childhoods, and want to see the digital age of consent raised from 13 to 16.”
In Denmark 94% of children already violate the 13-year-old ‘digital age of consent.’ The policy would introduce more pointless bureaucracy…
Funnily enough the NEU will find itself at odds with the Labour government which is planning to shove phones into children’s hands so it can force them to possess a Digital ID. No doubt Labour will try doing both and make an even worse hash of it…
