Oh lordy.
Article is a bit unclear on whether a ban after the consultation would be written exactly the same way that the Nash amendment that just passed Lords is.
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New article in the Telegraph on what is supposedly going on behind the scenes in Commons on the social media ban.
Most of the 60 Labour MPs who signed the letter last week have now reportedly agreed to let Starmer do a 3 month consultation, and will let Starmer reject the Lord's recent Amendment. (Although 12 of the Labour MPs aren't even willing to let him do that.)
Once the 3 months are up, Starmer will let the MPs fast track a ban through secondary legislation.
According to the Irish Independent, the Nash amendment just passed the House of Lords 261-150.
This is amazing. Almost nobody except for you has written about just how horrible this amendment is. And now it just passed the House of Lords.
Both the Nash bill you've written about and the LibDem proposal to create age ratings for social media are under debate in Lords.
They've been debating for 3 hours now and there is still no word on any vote.
Ed Miliband defends Starmer’s ‘calm’ response to Trump as world leaders amp up rhetoric – UK politics live
‘Keir Starmer’s leadership is absolutely right on this and I think at this stage, it’s about de-escalation and finding a way through this tricky situation,’ the energy secretary said
As much as I dislike Australia's social media ban, Australia's ban is really a lot less extreme than the proposed Lord's ban. Australia's social media ban applies to only 10 websites, while the Lord's ban applies to almost the whole internet. Furthermore, even on those 10 websites, the Australia ban only bans the creation of accounts, while the House of Lord's ban prohibits even viewing websites.
I think you need to draw more attention to the so-called "social media ban" that's before the House of Lords. As you've previously said, it's really far more than a social media ban.
That "social media ban" is almost certainly going to pass the House of Lords next week. And the ban also seems likely to pass the Commons. Ed Davey is the only person in Parliament who seems to have realized how extreme the Lords ban is and has talked about rewording the Lords' ban.