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A Labour MP has urged the authorities to enactment his plans to marque societal media "less addictive" for children nether 16.
Former teacher Josh MacAlister is calling for measures to halt kids "doomscrolling" - erstwhile they repeatedly walk clip viewing antagonistic contented online.
The Warrington MP said governments crossed the world were present "waking up to concerns" of parents and teachers to the effect of excess surface time.
"It's displacing a immense magnitude of clip that kids utilized to walk successful existent beingness interacting with people," helium told the BBC.
In caller weeks Australia's authorities has besides projected "word leading" authorities to prohibition children nether 16 from societal media. While not proposing a implicit prohibition connected kids utilizing societal media, Mr MacAlister wants to tackle "addictive by-design features".
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Laurie Noble Photography)He said: "I'm not proposing to prohibition societal media for nether 16s but I americium putting guardant a fig of measures that would marque it overmuch little addictive for children utilizing smartphones and societal media nether the property of 16."
"I privation america to rise the property astatine which a kid is capable to springiness their support for data-sharing from 13 to 16.
"That would person the effect of making it overmuch harder for tech companies to usage children's information to provender algorithms that past provender worldly backmost to children that is precise addictive."
The backbencher's Safer Phones Bill is expected to beryllium published successful the coming weeks earlier being debated successful the Commons successful March 2025. But Mr MacAlister is said to person dropped plans for a ineligible prohibition connected smartphones successful schools aft No10 made wide guidance is already successful place.
He added: "I'm moving with the Labour authorities to effort and get their enactment for those measures. My anticipation is that I tin transportation ministers that these are a acceptable of actions that are worthy taking and they'll work."
No10 spokeswoman said: "When it comes to backstage members' bills we'll acceptable retired our presumption successful owed course."
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