• lad@programming.dev
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    19 hours ago

    Relevant part:

    In response to Ofsted’s review of sexual abuse in schools and colleges on 10 June 2021, which was prompted by the Everyone’s Invited movement, de Souza was commissioned by Government to review online safety for children, with a focus on the prevalence of sexualised content. Over the following three months, she met with the owners and administrators of adult content sites, all major social media companies, and content sharing platforms, and co-chaired a meeting with Ministers and senior representatives of the eight largest internet and social media companies, to urge for greater protections for children and support for the Online Safety Bill, which became law in 2023.

    De Souza has campaigned for robust age limits on adult content sites and has called for tighter age verification on sites that children already engage with and use. Her work to strengthen the UK Government’s Online Safety Act, through workshops and focus groups with young people and other leading child’s rights organisations, led to her recommendations being accepted during the passage of the legislation, and to her being named as a statutory consultee on the face of the Act.

    But the rest of the article leaves a rather positive impression, she seems like a passionate and helping gal, even if sometimes this leads to a fuck up like this Online Safety Act. So I don’t quite understand what was your point, do you want to blame everything on her? I would say that she wasn’t the one making a law without listening to experts calling bullshit, she did take part in it but that’s never 100%

    • 反いじめ戦隊@ani.social
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      18 hours ago
      1. I’m not British.

      2. BBC goes a long way not to name her.

      3. Now, take everything you’ve been narrated with, with the fact an encyclopedia needs “greater protections for children” with “robust age limits” as an ❛adult content site❜ that requires “tighter age verification on sites that children already engage with and use.”

      4. I pray I don’t need to explain how children are being exploited with this law, instead of being protected.