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The “shambles” of the government’s plan on social media will not be fixed by banning children from accessing the platforms, Harriet Harman has said.
Speaking to Sky News political editor Beth Rigby on the Electoral Dysfunction podcast, the Labour peer cast doubt upon whether a ban on under-16s using social media – as supported by the House of Lords – is workable.
The proposals passed by the Lords still need to be agreed by MPs before they become law. The government wants to hold a consultation before committing to a ban.
Harman pointed to existing legislation like the Online Harms Bill, Crime and Policing Bill, Data Use and Access Bill, before even considering the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill under which peers and some MPs want a social media ban to be legislated.
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“It’s kind of a shambles, it’s not coherent,” Harman said.
“I really think what we need is a committee in the House of Commons of MPs.”
Without sorting out a “process”, Harman said the government risked leaping on a ban only to “discover the ban doesn’t work” and have to try something else, “which is…
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