The government is considering providing strict online safety measures to reduce the amount of time that children can spend on social media, as BBC understands.
The proposals include a two -hour ceiling on the use of individual social media applications and a curfew at 22:00 I mentioned for the first time by the people of Sunday and the mirror.
Bening in the BBC program on Sunday with the Laura Kuenssberg program, Technology Minister Peter Kyle said he was looking at the “addictive nature of some applications and smartphones”, when he was asked whether the time limits would be considered.
But online safety activist accused the government of delaying the brought new laws to protect children.
“Every day the government is late in bringing the most striking safety laws online, we have seen more small lives lost and damaged due to poor organization and inaction through major technology,” said Ian Russell, whose daughter Molly took her life at fourteen years old after seeing harmful content via the Internet.
Mr. Russell, who has supported the online safety law for the previous government, said that the “stronger and most effective” legislation will finally change the phone call to products and unsafe business models that give priority to participate in safety. “
“It will be the pleasure of parents to the top and at the bottom to see the Prime Minister decisively to suppress a tsunami from the harm that children face on the Internet, but thieves will not do the task.”
Kyle BBC told that he was not able to publicly talk about the government’s plans to tighten the online safety laws because the legislation approved by the previous conservative government in 2023 has not been enact.
“We had illegal content this year to be removed, but in July, it is necessary to provide suitable materials for the age by the platforms, otherwise there will be criminal penalties against them,” BBC told the BBC on Sunday with the Laura Quinsburg program.
He said that he was carefully looking at what the government needs to do alongside “fish more strongly” on safety, “and he understood how a healthy life appears on the Internet” and “stopping barriers” towards achieving this.
In January, Tell the Kyle BBC The laws related to the integrity of the Internet were “very equal” and “unsatisfactory”, and to follow calls from activists to tighten the rules.
The minister expressed his “frustration” of the online safety law, but he did not commit to making changes to the legislation.
Whitehal’s source later told the BBC that there were no plans to cancel the law.
