Starmer to Discuss Social Media Ban With ‘Adolescence’ Creators in No 10 Meeting – Guido Fawkes

Starmer to Discuss Social Media Ban With ‘Adolescence’ Creators in No 10 Meeting

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Downing Street has briefed that Starmer will today host a “roundtable” in No 10 with the creators of Netflix’s moral panic drama “Adolescence.” No 10 says “the roundtable shows his concerns and determination to play his part in addressing the multiple challenges the show raises.” The main “challenge” its creators are raising is to ban social media…

Show creator Jack Thorne, who wants it shown to MPs and all classrooms, says: “We do believe perhaps the answer to this is in parliament and legislating – and taking kids away from their phones in school and taking kids away from social media altogether.” A suggestion slapped down in recent days by the heroic Youth Parliament…

Starmer’s discussions with the show creators will no doubt include some pathway to greater regulation. Will the PM be challenged on his shocking decision to show the “disturbing” drama to underage children?