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Social Media Ban: There's ‘Legitimate’ Concerns Children Will Be Pushed To Darker Web | Mark Sellman
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11:30Now Playing“The government is going to have to do some convincing.”
There is a risk that Keir Starmer’s blanket ban on social media for under 16s could push youngsters to other platforms where “most or a lot of abuse and grooming is done”, says The Times’s technology correspondent Mark Sellman.
Mark Sellman was speaking to Kait Borsay on The Evening Edition on Times Radio. Listen live every Monday to Thursday from 7pm–10pm.
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