Until the UK deals with the adults being radicalised by the Mail, Telegraph and Times, they can bang on all they like about the internet, nothing will change.
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You assume the UK 'leadership' cares about these things. They don't. Those are their prep-school buddies you are talking about. The one thing they really hate about Musk is that he's a hayseed with no Greek.
They want the mainstream media to be able to radicalise the public. What they don't want is for anyone else to do this, or for people to be able to fight back or fact check those in power. Worse still - see attached skeet. https://bsky.app/profile/sarahviktoria.bsky.social/post/3ldfy5d4xs22d
The front page of the Guardian online today running a story about how parents can talk to their kids about extreme online violence, then running a story about a "fiftyfold increase" in GD diagnoses would seem to indicate that maybe the kids should be talking to their parents about spotting misinfo
Having lunch with my mother and a family friend this week and steeling myself for The Discourse. Friend and her circle are just as into meme culture as folk my age, only they're on WhatsApp sharing transphobic nonsense ripped from these papers' headlines. And they believe these papers as gospel.
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They've indemnified big media against accountability for harm like US law which makes big social media companies sue proof.
It is also a loophole for US "free speech" media to spread disinfo to the UK.