Didn't Friends Reunited just turn into Facebook?

It's also a haven for those of us who remember what their Twitter feed was like before Space Karen took over and filled it with AI bots and other weird shit

A labour goverment isnt going to ban a very left leaning platform is it

Bring back Friends Reunited!!

Trigg is correct too - it’s a haven for us Waitrose organic avocado munching Guardianistas…

I will have to check my kids' Friendster, Vine & Bebo accounts immediately!

Preston - not sure whether this helps, maybe not, but when Jack Dorsey left the board of BlueSky (having co-founded it), he cited its use of “centralized moderation” as a reason, whereas Twitter was (his words) “freedom technology” - in other words, he preferred that people could be as racist, homophobic, and misogynistic as they liked, whereas that element would be much more likely to be moderated out by BlueSky safety. I guess it just depends which side of the “abuse is ok/not ok” fence someone is. BlueSky may end up being added to that list, or X may get removed from it - time will tell I guess…

Teens wouldn’t be seen dead on bluesky it’s the social media equivalent of an old people’s home.

I was much more along the lines of “why has Twitter/X been added to the list, but not BlueSky?”

Has the putney bridge pusher been found?[Link]

Spot on Alan.

OI, re YouTube, I nearly got into a fight with a former work colleague who thought it was cool to ambush me with a horrible clip from Afghanistan of a local getting blown up. It was pre-covid era but clips do get through and that's something you can't unsee.

Spit, I think probably all, certainly most, of the people on here will not see 16 again.

Shame about Roger Cook ,recently watched a few episodes of the cook report on YouTube, he had no fear.

Didn't the owners of twitter ,form bluesky?😂

Topical sensitive content warning on this link [Link] Three men shown helping a Brazilian lady do a form of bungee/bridge-jump. All now under arrest as you notice them notice that they forgot to attach the rope. She did not survive.

I think Twitter has all the pedos Spit - one of them even owns it….

Starmer Internet enforcer [Link]

Maybe that young 5 year old getting dragged screaming by the old bill into a police car at the weekend was part of the crack down

Read something which reckons circa 60% of Aussie teens have circumvented the ban there.

Is wup on the list,lot of strange people on it:-)

Nanny state,parents should have the choice for their children ,youtube ban is ridiculous

OI - YouTube can be useful for revision etc, but is also full of awful stuff kids should never see. The useful revision and good entertainment can be placed on actual proper channels and websites such as Bitesize or whatever…

Preston - if the content providers could be bothered to put sufficiently strong safeguards in place and remove the offensive content, then keeping children safe from being exposed to such content would be far less of an issue that required legislating for… So many parents have no clue what their children are seeing (endless scrolling through violence and wholly age inappropriate sexualised content), so blaming them doesn’t work, that’s just gaslighting. Ofcom won’t regulate them, someone had to - kids can get hold of alcohol if they really want to, but that’s not a reason to bin off an age limit on buying booze….

youtube seems odd though I suppose there is bad stuff on there somewhere. It is used a lot for sports broadcasting etc.