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Ban children from social media if new online safety laws watered down, children's commissioner says
Young people should be removed from social media altogether if the Online Safety Act is watered down as part of US trade negotiations, the children's commissioner for England has said.
Dame Rachel de Souza told Sky News' breakfast with Wilfred Frost that she fought for the flagship bill because children as young as eight are being exposed to "gore, pornography, terrible degrading violence towards women" on the internet. Politics Live: Starmer says UK will face Trump tariffs with 'calm head' The act requires social media firms to block children accessing illegal and harmful material, with fines if they fail to do so.
Dame Rachel said: "If regulation is pulled back on children, if the online safety bill is pulled back on children, then we need children off social media." She said that would be a "shame" because "we want the internet to be a joyous place where you can learn things". However, "children need to be kept safe" and parents would be "astounded by what their youngsters are seeing.
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