AIBU to think banning social media for under-16s is a good idea?

Thanks, I didn't realise that. I thought it was just a blanket ban on all YouTube videos.

You do realise this is not a normal 9 year old YouTube video content history and your post smacks of middle class privilege devoid of any thought of the huge number of children viewing hugely damaging material. My child’s fine and dandy in his MC bubble f*k the rest of them.

They will still be able to use YouTube. The social media companies will simply be banned from offering accounts to under-16s.

Well at least we won't have the likes of Victoria Beckham prostituting their children all over social media, setting them up with 'brands' at the age of 14 and trying to sell us shit we don't need, or worse praying on young girls insecurities and trying to sell them crap they don't need.
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It’s so easy to slip through and they only need to see something once for it to be deeply traumatising. My son was showed a beheading on the school bus. Parents can not keep ahead of every site and continuously go through history day in and day out. Most are working full time.

I agree with it. My daughter is starting secondary school and they’re banning smartphones on site. I understand this too but how can I track her as been using life360 on her iPhone. All us mums been talking about brick phones but how do we track. Apple tags only locate reliably if nearby a smartphone!!!!

Well at least we won't have the likes of Victoria Beckham prostituting their children all over social media, setting them up with 'brands' at the age of 14 and trying to sell us shit we don't need, or worse praying on young girls insecurities and trying to sell them crap they don't need.
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You do realise this is not a normal 9 year old YouTube video content history and your post smacks of middle class privilege devoid of any thought of the huge number of children viewing hugely damaging material. My child’s fine and dandy in his MC bubble f*k the rest of them.

Why are these children watching "hugely damaging material" though?
Who is letting them?
Their parents presumably.

You do realise this is not a normal 9 year old YouTube video content history and your post smacks of middle class privilege devoid of any thought of the huge number of children viewing hugely damaging material. My child’s fine and dandy in his MC bubble f*k the rest of them.

I just looked through my 9 year olds youtube videos watched the last month (we have locked things down)

• Royal Ballet (loads of it)
• English national ballet
• Corbett maths
• chess programs
• national geographic (loads)
• 2 minecraft videos on how to build a rollercoaster

@SadiraOfTyr let’s hope so. But if it will indeed be banned for under 16s, they’ll have to introduce mandatory age verification, which means no account - no access

And if YouTube get themselves organised so their content is organised into age appropriate categories then that’s entirely possible, at the moment the issue is there’s nothing but a few clicks between those videos and some really disturbing content.

@SadiraOfTyr let’s hope so. But if it will indeed be banned for under 16s, they’ll have to introduce mandatory age verification, which means no account - no access

I just looked through my 9 year olds youtube videos watched the last month (we have locked things down)

• Royal Ballet (loads of it)
• English national ballet
• Corbett maths
• chess programs
• national geographic (loads)
• 2 minecraft videos on how to build a rollercoaster

He’ll still be able to watch all of this. He just won’t be able to have an account. You can watch YouTube without an account.

I just looked through my 9 year olds youtube videos watched the last month (we have locked things down)

• Royal Ballet (loads of it)
• English national ballet
• Corbett maths
• chess programs
• national geographic (loads)
• 2 minecraft videos on how to build a rollercoaster

I'm on the fence. My 15 year old uses you tube but none of the other sites on the list. But he will be 16 by the time the ban comes in anyway. My 13 year old who has learning disabilities is going to struggle as he uses YouTube videos a lot to do things like cooking etc as he finds reading instructions difficult. My 12 year old doesn't watch YouTube anyway.

All I’m saying is it shouldn’t be the government telling us what to do, they are our kids. my daughter is almost 14, she has some of the SM platforms which are very well policed by me, she has spot checks, she’s not allowed to be on her phone in her room after 9.30. Tbh 90% of the time when it kicks off on one of her what’s app groups she comes to tell me the gossip anyway, and her best friend always gives me the low down too. Thankfully my daughter has a good group of friends and they are always bigging each other up on any posts, not tearing each other down. Shes never behind on homework. And she has a better social life than me, she’s off out on about 10 different trips/parties and gatherings in the next month. Not everyone’s kids are addicted to social media or the phones.