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13.01.26 - 13:12
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Keir Starmer tells MPs he is open to Australian-style social media ban (The Guardian)
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PM says he has shifted position after becoming alarmed at reports about five-year-olds spending hours on screensKeir Starmer has told MPs he is open to the idea of an Australian-style ban on social media for young people after becoming concerned about the amount of time children and teenagers are spending on their phones.The prime minister told Labour MPs on Monday evening he had become alarmed at reports about five-year-olds spending hours in front of screens each day, as well as increasingly worried about the damage social media is doing to under-16s. Continue reading......
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12.01.26 - 19:42
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Social media is corrupting young minds – but a ban is not the answer | Zoe Williams (The Guardian)
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Kicking under-16s off the social platforms is tempting, but it ignores the root of the problem: the older generations who made them so toxic in the first placeKemi Badenoch is evolving into one of those politicians who, whatever she says, it's not just likely to be wrong, it's likely to be the opposite of what's right. She says Greenland is not a big deal (a “second-order issue” is how she described it to the BBC) – it is a big deal. She says net zero is too expensive – the opposite is true: net-anything-but-zero is a cost we can't afford.But her promise to ban under-16s from using social media, echoing Australia's recent move, is hard to write off completely; people across the spectrum, including Andy Burnham, agree with it. Nobody who has ever met a teenager, or read the news, will be completely at ease with the role of social media in young lives. There are horrific effects, which have been well documented and inadequately addressed ever since the death of 14-year-old Molly Russell, who to...
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11.01.26 - 12:18
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Kemi Badenoch says Tories would ban under-16s from ′addictive′ social media (The Guardian)
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Conservative leader backs Australian-inspired policy to stop platforms 'profiting from their anxiety'UK politics live – latest updatesThe Conservatives are backing a ban on social media for under-16s in an attempt to prevent addictive platforms fuelling anxiety and distraction among teenagers.Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, said she did not like the word ban but she wanted to see an age limit of 16 in the same way that Australia had introduced restrictions on social media for children. Continue reading......
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11.01.26 - 10:30
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Ban social media for under-16s, top teaching union urges UK government (The Guardian)
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NASUWT says evidence growing that unregulated access affects behaviour in school and harms mental healthUK politics live – latest updatesOne of the UK's biggest teaching unions has called on the government to ban social media for under-16s over concerns about mental health and concentration.The Teachers' Union (NASUWT) wants legislation to be tightened so big tech firms would face penalties for allowing children to access their platforms. Continue reading......
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08.01.26 - 21:48
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3 von 10 kaufen über soziale Netzwerke ein (IT-Times)
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Social Commerce besonders bei jüngeren Menschen beliebtJeder Dritte zwischen 16 und 29 Jahren shoppt auf InstagramWerbung und Influencer-Marketing auf Social Media entscheidend Berlin, 08. Januar 2......
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08.01.26 - 21:45
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Black Harvard Dean Fired After Anti-White, Anti-Police Social Media Posts Resurface (ZeroHedge)
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Black Harvard Dean Fired After Anti-White, Anti-Police Social Media Posts Resurface
A Harvard University dean has been removed after a student-run news outlet, the Yard Report, dug up old social media posts slamming whiteness, the cops, and advocating for looting and rioting.
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Gregory Davis, the former Dunster House Allston Burr resident dean, wrote the posts in question between 2019 and 2024 - mostly on X. He became dean of the dormitory in 2024.
"It's almost like Whiteness is a self-destructive ideology that annihilates everyone around it. By design," he said in 2019.
Meanwhile in 2020 amid the George Floyd riots, Davis slammed the police, posting "You should ask your cop friends to resign since they're racist and evil," he said on X.
Davis then defended the 'mostly peaceful' riots that ensued, writing "Something to keep in mind: rioting and looting are parts of democracy just like voting and marching," adding "The people WILL be heard."
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