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Tech companies person had "more than capable clip to get their location successful order", Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has said up of an announcement connected Monday by the premier curate connected restricting societal media for teenagers.
Speaking to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg, Nandy said that if the firms were "not prepared" to guarantee their products were harmless "they frankly suffer the close to marketplace their products towards children".
The Times has reported that Sir Keir Starmer's announcement volition see banning nether 16-year-olds from immoderate societal media sites and a curfew for older teenagers.
But campaigner Ian Russell, whose girl Molly took her ain beingness aft viewing harmful contented online, warned that "sledgehammer techniques similar bans" would origin much problems.
Russell said helium was "dismayed" by reports of a prohibition and suggested the argumentation had been "rushed" guardant for "a governmental reason".
"If he's playing politics, what he's doing is gambling with young people's lives - and I find that deplorable."
Nandy said she would not "pre-empt" the premier minister's announcement connected Monday but said it was "how, not whether, we amended support children online" adding: "We cognize determination are wider measures that are needed."
She said the "vast majority" of responses to the government's consultation had backed a societal media prohibition for under-16-year-olds.
She acknowledged that a prohibition successful Australia had shown that immoderate young radical would beryllium find ways to debar the restrictions.
However, she argued that "it changes the presumption - truthful astatine the ages of 8, 9, 10 and 11, children aren't presuming they are going to beryllium successful these spaces due to the fact that each of their friends are.
"It importantly changes the civilization which is wherefore it is thing we person earnestly considered and the premier curate volition person much to accidental astir that tomorrow."
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