James BakerHouse of Lords has defeated Government again on Online Safety. Rejecting new Henry VIII powers to ban sites. Insisting on an under 16 ban for social media. Also dropping requirement to age gate VPNs 🎉. Final twist Kidron has proposed a new raft of amendments that create quite radical changes to the Online Safety Act. I guess in hope Government goes for them in ping pong. #Parliament #onlinesafety #VPN
Dash@JamesBaker This feels like a competition between the two Houses for the most ill-thought-out ideas.
@dash They will do anything other than help to build resilience among young people to harms through education and support services.
AnneH@JamesBaker @dash If only they had put all the money wasted on OSA & the like into youth clubs, sports centres, media/online education for parents & young people. Always the kneejerk to control, curtail, prevent.
@annehargreaves @dash The opportunity cost is huge. When you consider how much resource goes into the global age verification industry let alone the Ofcom and compliance costs and platform fees etc even before how it’s dominated over all other children mental health causes such as CAHMS backlog, SEND support, exam stress etc
@JamesBaker @dash Another aspect is that the number of adults who are not looking after under-18s must surely be a majority and are now having ID imposed.