Summary
Social media influencers are fuelling a rise in misogyny and sexism in the UK’s classrooms, according to teachers.
More than 5,800 teachers were polled… and nearly three in five (59%) said they believe social media use has contributed to a deterioration in pupils’ behaviour.
One teacher said she’d had 10-year-old boys “refuse to speak to [her]…because [she is] a woman”. Another said “the Andrew Tate phenomena had a huge impact on how [pupils] interacted with females and males they did not see as ‘masculine’”.
“There is an urgent need for concerted action… to safeguard all children and young people from the dangerous influence of far-right populists and extremists.”
SIGHS.
YouTube isn’t the police.
Verifying your age to access adult/mature content isn’t some novel concept. We absolutely can come up with a way to do this online that at least mitigates the risk of leaked/stolen data to an acceptable level. Doing nothing at all and just letting kids access anything they want on the internet is not a solution, and hiding behind “freedom” as an excuse to abdicate social responsibility is lazy.
Encroaching on privacy and hiding behind the idea of “protecting kids” as an excuse to take away from your liberty and private life is lazy.
If you want to protect your child from what they might find on the internet, then spend time with them. Don’t pawn this off to the state.
This feels exactly like people fighting against gun control while schools are shot up on the regular. Get over your individualism and sparkling ideals and realize that something has to be done. If your privacy and personal freedom are tied to Facebook and Twitter, maybe that’s a you problem.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t do anything. Tax them, fine them, shut them down. I’m all for it. But don’t let them collect any more data by slapping this legislation.
No, that’s an us problem. If you’re a Latino living in the US I don’t think you’d like Trump to know your face and your ID when you post a negative thing about him on an online platform.
Go ahead and point out where I said your liberty should be taken away. Using the internet is not an inherent right.
I never mentioned the state. This is like blaming the opioid epidemic on the addict and alleviating Purdue of all responsibility. No amount of personal accountability is going to fix the problem while multi-billion dollar corporations pump an addictive and harmful product into society 24/7.
I’d argue that it is, but that’s beyond the scope of this topic.
Then tax them, fine them, ban them. What we shouldn’t do is let them collect any more data about us using this type of legislation.