Friday 9 February 2024

Commendable But Almost Impossible

Rishi Sunak is having a bit of a week. It started off with everyone booing him when him and Piers Morgan made a £1000 bet live on TV about how many immigrants will be sent to Rwanda and then there was his little aside about transgender people when the mother of murdered transgender, Brianna Ghey, was watching from the House of Commons public gallery and it ended with him turning up to a Dentist to announce his NHS Dental Treatment plan only to be told that that particular dentist he chose didn't do NHS Treatment.
One lady summed it up nicely when asked what she thought of Rishi Sunak, blew her big chance to appear on that evenings News by calling him a 'Total Bellend' which to be fair he is, but unusable at 6pm when small children could be watching.
What trouble with the bruhaha over his Transgender jibe was that it swallowed up the reason why Brianna's mother was in the Commons in the first place, to say that under 16's should legally be banned from accessing social media apps on mobile phones.
If a phone has an internet connection then it can still access the social media websites, kids are much more tech savvy then we give them credit for and they know about VPN's and things which would allow them to circumnavigate any restrictions so that wouldn't work.
I asked one of the IT guy's at work and he shrugged and was more interested in why i had my wet gloves draped over my laptop. Duh, because they're wet obviously.
I asked another one who said that it would be almost impossible to stop youngsters accessing the sites and the age verification currently used is next to useless as as you just need to tick a box to say you are over 16 or enter a date of birth which makes you over 16 so he thinks the only way is to pass the buck to the social media sites to face fines or legal action if they allow under 16's to access their sites or use some sort of Ai so an account is suspended automatically if someone is being a dick on them.
Unfortunately, Mrs Ghey's idea is commendable and understandable considering what happened to her daughter but it seems almost impossible to impose.
Now i have to find the IT guy again because my laptop seems to be playing up, it's as if water may have has got into it or something.