Sources: the UK plans talks this month with Apple, Meta, and others to push a voluntary charter granting parents more control of social media use by young teens
Ellen Milligan / Bloomberg : X: @arollingsloane , @jamesrbuk , @alecmuffett , and @webdevlaw X: @arollingsloane : they shouldn't agree too it bcos the ‘disturbing content’ is literally just gonna be the fact that lgbt+ ppl exist. also this nannying bullshit is annoying in general. it's the parents responsibility. James Ball / @jamesrbuk : The huge push on teens and social media feels like outsourcing parenting to social media. Teens will do better on social if not introduced to it suddenly. Most parental controls that exist are barely used, so how will adding more help? Bans likely to backfire even more harshly. Alec Muffett / @alecmuffett : @jamesrbuk Can we call this the #helicopterparentscharter https://twitter.com/... Heather Burns / @webdevlaw : “The proposed voluntary charter may involve tech firms agreeing to alert parents when their children are repeatedly looking up disturbing content” And what if the “disturbing content” the children are looking up concerns the way their parents are raising and treating them?