The Online Safety Bill requires sites that allow user-generated content, such as Facebook, TikTok, and even Wikipedia, to prevent children from seeing content the government defines as ‘harmful’.
Users may have to verify their age, or content could just be blocked for everyone.
If we really want to keep children safe online, we shouldn’t force them to give up their biometric data to tech platforms so they can access important information or support.
The sort of person who threatens a constituent with legal action because he accused him of having a second job under a second name, before admitting he "over-firmly denied" the accusation.
The new Defence Secretary.
sobs
(I know there are many more reasons, general and specific, that make him unsuitable, but time is too short to list them all)
I subscribe to political party emails in the UK. Here's the start of one I got today (28th Aug 2023). I think it's a fine example of how politics is being dragged into the gutter.
I responded with a 'Shame on you' letter - read it in full here:
I have done a series with a set limit. I made "101 things that would be a better PM than Boris Johnson" in the run up to the 2019 election.
It went out on the other place, so I need to rummage around in my saved archive to get the full versions and put them onto my website, but you can see a single page summary of the 101 things here.
According to the BBC, her goodbye letter to Sunak says that "in your impatience to become prime minister you put your personal ambition above the stability of the country and our economy."
I mean she's not wrong, but it's more than slightly hypocritical coming from a woman whose sole claim to political capability comes from being the most loyal follower of Boris Johnson!
Can't help feeling that two months is more than ample for winding up an MP's office. As for "case work," these are MPs, not social workers. Two months is more time than most redundant people get for an orderly hand-over and lends some support for MPs' using a common Parliamentary secretariat for constituency work.
I hate Facebook, more and more each day.... and before you ask, I have to go there because I run a number of important groups, and also need to keep in touch with elderly relatives whose only point of contact is their FB account.
But, as I said, I hate it. Constant adverts, nonsense videos, hackers and scams everywhere, and what can I say about the dreaded "reels"...where would I even begin to describe their awfulness.
But the bulk of FB is hyperreality at it's most banal. Consumerism mixed with social posturing. The society of the spectacle; commodity fetishism combined with social mendacity.
I think it's dying tbh, Increasingly people I know post in a perfunctory way.
Saccharin superficiality when people are worried about paying the bills, work, rent, climate etc
In the U.K. there has been a small cabinet reshuffle this morning. Rishi Sunak has announced Grant Shapps as Defence Minister, Michael Green as Defence Minister, Corinne Stockheath as Defence Minister and Sebastian Fox as Defence Minister.
O.K. so the new U.K. defence minister is Grant Shapps, but please don't shout about it. We don't want Putin finding out about this. Christ, we don't even want Liechtenstein finding out about it.
In the last year in U.K. politics, Grant Shapps has been home secretary, transport secretary, business secretary, energy secretary and now defence secretary.