Digital Safety: Children Debate
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Edward Leigh
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(4 days, 20 hours ago)
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Sir Edward Leigh (Gainsborough) (Con)
Rather than trading party political points, can we all agree that these huge companies are rotting our children’s minds with addictive algorithms? While we know that banning things seldom works because people circumvent it and it leads to criminality, will the Minister and the Prime Minister go to these companies and say that they are in the last chance saloon—either they take decisive action, which we know they can do, or we will ban children from going on social media?
Kanishka Narayan
In characteristic fashion, the Father of the House has given wise counsel, and I will very much take it to heart in the way that the Government act.