Tech minister Kyle vows action on children’s ‘compulsive’ use of social media
The technology secretary said that children may encounter a limit to use social media practices to help young people çat control their online life ”.
Peter Kyle, it is reported that he wanted to fight with “compulsive behavior ve and that the ministers consider a two -hour border and the curfew was also discussed.
Cabinet Minister said he would make an announcement about his plans under the age of 16 under the age of 16.
He said to Sky News: orum I look very carefully about the general time of children in these applications.
“I think some parents feel a little weak about how to make their children healthier online.
“I think some children sometimes think that there are too many compulsive behavior with practices, they only need some help to seize their online life, and these are really careful things.”
Sky, a two -hour border per platform was taken into consideration, the night or school time curfew was also discussed.
Mr. Kyle said, uz We talk a lot about a healthy childhood offline. We should do the same online.
“I think sleep is very important, it is very important to focus on work.”
He said in favor of parents that he wanted to “tip the balance”, so “always breaking the phones from the hands of children”.
Mr. Kyle also said that some adults to use applications or game platforms to communicate with children online is “Total Madness ..
“Most of the applications or companies have taken action to restrict the contacts of adults, especially foreigners, but we need to go further,” he said.
“Right now, I think that the balance is slightly leaning in the wrong direction.
“Parents do not think that online childhood experience, how much time, what they see, and that children are protected from unhealthy activities or content when they are online.”
In a separate interview with the parenting site Mumsnet, Mr. Kyle said that he was “deeply worried about the addictive practices used by children.
Speaking with Justine Roberts, the founder of Mumsnet on Monday, the Technology Secretary said that he would “nail more in age verification.”
He said: “I think we can make a national speech about what healthy childhood looks like online.
Uz We always do this offline. Parents, as part of a language and vocabulary within families, establish curfews and diet and exercise.
“We have not made these national debates about what health looks like and that a healthy childhood seems like online yet.”
In February last year, schools in the UK were given a non -warehous government guidance, which aimed to stop the use of telephones during the school day.
However, conservatives call the Workers’ Government to bring a legal prohibition to smartphones in schools.
Mr. Kyle said: “Smart phones should not be used routinely in schools.
“Now, there may be some classes they are brought for a particular purpose in the classroom, but this should be determined and the norm should be exception, not the norm.”
“If we need to nail it, we will nail it.
“But please consider it very carefully to ask politicians to pass a law that punishes a requirement.
“Because if you pass a law that is not punished, this is not a law that means something”.
A series of announced precautions to protect children will come into force as of Friday.
The application codes specified by OCOM require that algorithms used to propose content on the platforms of the companies require that they are necessary to configure harmful content from child feeds.
In addition, the most risky platforms, such as pornography, should have effective age controls to determine which users are children.
Controls can be done using a face-age estimation technology, asking users to give photo-I for verification or credit card control.
