Social media should have cigarette packet-style health warnings, Lib Dems to say
Liberal Democrats, children to protect the damage to social media practices should be placed in cigarette -style health warnings, he said.
In the urge to make the Internet safer for young people, the party also wants to introduce a “apocalypse karma to prevent social media feeds from providing new content forever.
Lib Dem Victoria Collins, a spokesman for science and technology, will organize plans in a speech at the party conference in Bournemouth on Monday.
“If we get this multibillion -pound industry, we should be brave,” the conference will tell the conference.
Mrs. Collins will add: uz We have known for a long time that we need to know in places where online content poses a threat to public health. So I am looking for addictive social media applications with compulsory health warnings for under the age of 18.
“Just like cigarettes or alcohol, these addictive products carry well -documented risks, especially for young people.
“Evidence is clear that the excessive use of these practices causes real damage to mental health problems, anxiety, sleep cuts and attention times. Don’t they deserve to know this?”
Intervention in the protection area of their children on social media comes after the party leader Sir Ed Davey continued to spit with the technology boss Elon Musk.
Sir Ed called for the research of the Mr Musk’s Platform to allow the increase in images of child abuse and self -harm instructions.
The US -based businessman criticized Sir Keir Starmer to introduce the online safety act, which aims to protect children online, but Mr. Musk said it had a creepy effect on a free speech.
Sir Ed is expected to attack Mr. Musk in his conference speech on Tuesday.
Ms. Collins, the scientific spokesperson of the party, increased the government’s heat because it did not go far enough to protect children from harmful online content.
He said: “Peter Kyle, until recently, the secretary of the science, on addictive social practices made time covers or curfews – but the failure to leave a record of failure to another department.
“The government should finally present and introduce a ban on apocalypse that limits the time children can spend on these addictive practices.”
The survey, which was assigned by Lib DEMS before technology -oriented speech, found that 80% of school -age children reported at least one negative behavior in young people due to excessive telephone use.
The survey conducted by Savanta met with a representative example of 611 British parents of school -age children between 22 and 26 August.
