#BBCAQ gives Reform representatives plenty of air time but the audiences don’t like them.
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Didn’t any callers want to talk about Iran or Trump or oil?
Fewer children now take up cigarettes because we have normalized that tobacco is harmful. A generational shift. And that's how online harms should be tackled. Restrictions create new norms for future generations.
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Is it @anitaanand.bsky.social or the callers?
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As a child and many moons ago before social media I was put in front of a TV screen for hours. #bbcaq
Anita seems to want to have her own decisions about her two sons use of social media validated. We are spending a long time on this topic.
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Obviously kids should not be allowed to use smart phones at school.
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Another wasted #bbcaq phone in. Nobody could accuse the BBC of stifling debate eh? I'm bored!
"the genie is out of the bottle"
Well so is the pornography genie, yet we still do our best to restrict children from accessing pornography.
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Oh my god this old man on the radio who wants to ban social media and bring back Netscape Navigator is my age. #bbcaq
It's ridiculous to suggest that younger generations can't survive the modern world without social media. Goodness sake, no one is suggesting banning the Internet, just one harmful element.
Social media is not the only conduit to the world.
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We learning for children, and adults, should include the importance of privacy and how to use social media safely. Otherwise we just end up with 16 year old people being adversely affected. #bbcaq
Just a thought. Would one way of regulating social media for under 16s be to make it illegal to give them a separate account and have their use fully visible to the adult who pays for the phone through a sub-account? #bbcaq
Whatsapp is a social medium. #bbcaq
Spot on that caller. Regulation (in this case of social media use) sends a message and informs behaviour. It doesn’t need to be 100% successful to be a very good idea. #bbcaq
Did the #bbcaq panel only talk about social media?
If social media are going to be harmful in the ways that smoking or alcohol can be there is something wrong with social media. #bbcaq
Free speech does not include hate speech. #bbcaq
We need a lot of extra education - in schools and for the general public - about the use and abuse of our personal data and why we need to keep private things private. #bbcaq
If Tories and Reform developed a conscience and if unicorns burped clean energy then the world would be a better place. #bbcaq
Would you fund and trust a National Tech Service?
And it’d be the parents’ responsibility to go to the service, the service wouldn’t have the power to police them if they didn’t bother.
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The usual suspects are trying to undermine the security of elections following defeat.
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www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Why does he refer to a router as a rowter? #bbcaq
@atrupar.com Trump has taken a leaf out of Putin's book. His was isn't a war, it is a 'special military operation. #bbcaq
Couldn't see Daily Mailer's coming on and blaming the parents. Ffffs #bbcaq
It’s one thing to ban them in the classroom but quite different in their own free time.
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Why then are they pushing a racist narrative? #bbcaq
There should be no fear of taxation, Government should create enough money for everyone to be comfortable and taxations should be at whatever is necessary to prevent inflation. #bbcaq
Nobody should be willingly sharing their data with 'Meta'. #bbcaq
#bbcaq Social media is the problem not the children using it.