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> protect the children isn’t to protect the children, it’s to get reelected

The next UK general election is ~5 years away so this makes no sense.

The more likely reason is that it's simply good policy. We have enough research now that shows that (a) social media use is harmful for children and (b) social media companies like Meta, TikTok etc have done a wilfully poor job at protecting them.

It is bizarre to me how many people here seem willing to defend them.

>>threes+(OP)
Does British campaigning not look very far into the past? In the US, an opposing candidate would absolutely say “the incumbent voted against the protect-children-from-online-predators act five years ago, don’t reelect them, vote for me” and it would be effective.

>>wat100+74
LOL what campaigning? A couple of weeks before the election I get a few leaflets through my door with a few paragraphs about some person I never heard of and maybe some bullet points. People just pick political party and then vote for whoever has their logo next to the name.