Nanny State Refuses To Care For Actual Children
The United Kingdom wants to intrude into the private lives of its citizens in almost every area except one.
New Australian law banning children under 16 from accessing social media takes effect Wednesday, Politico reports. British lawmakers remain uninspired, despite Australia’s membership in the British Commonwealth.
“There are currently no plans to ban smartphones or social media for children. It is important that we protect children while allowing them to safely benefit from the digital world, without cutting off essential services or isolating the most vulnerable,” a government spokesperson told the outlet. (RELATED: Foreign leaders caught orchestrating censorship campaign against right-wing US media companies)
🤐British police have made a large number of chilling arrests following social media posts
“The government should immediately review the laws that allow such scale of arrest for online speech and save the UK’s deteriorating reputation for civil liberties” – Maya Thomas, Legal and Policy… pic.twitter.com/5W5zeYThCu
– Big Brother Watch (@BigBrotherWatch) November 17, 2025
Let us sincerely consider how children benefit from the “digital world”. They might come across new and good ideas. They can access tutorials on how to cook, sew, or fix something broken. And a social media account is a prerequisite for being considered a relevant social being, when a child’s entire class is online.
Of course, this is less a benefit of social media than a requirement imposed by the ubiquity of its use among children.
I won’t dwell too much on the harms of social media, as these should be quite obvious. In short: offering social media to a child is like opening your bedroom window and shouting into the street: “Would anyone like to come for an unsupervised visit?”
“We believe the bans are ineffective,” a Reform UK spokesperson told Politico. Reform UK is nominally right-wing, but has done little to stop the country descending into terminal homosexual communism.
In any case, the time is late for principled objections to “bans.” There is no general right to free speech in the UK, a fact which the British government has largely exploited.
UK ranks number one for social media arrests
12,000 in just one year
Over China and Russia
We don’t have freedom of speech pic.twitter.com/51xt0SnpFW
– Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) November 1, 2025
Videos of British police officers allegedly visiting Britons to investigate their use of social media are abundant.
A man is said to have written the letter “N” with the intention of writing “No.”
“Right now, you are my suspect in this crime,” a man, presumably a law enforcement officer, says over the phone.
“We ask you to come voluntarily to the police station,” a man says in another video, referring to the cameraman’s Facebook posts.
Cumbria Constabulary, a police force in Penrith, has the highest social media arrest rate per capita in Britain, according to the Daily Mail.
The department had a “arrest rate of 42.5 per 100,000 population (217 arrests) in 2024, 20 times higher than Staffordshire Police’s low rate of 2.1 (21 arrests).»
“Gwent Police came second with a rate of 33.9, making a total of 204 arrests.»
The Daily Mail reports that “thousands of people have been arrested and questioned for sending messages that only annoy, annoy, or worry others.»
Total arrests for social media use “fell to 9,700 last year, down from a record 13,800 in 2023, but still above pre-pandemic levels,» according to the Daily Mail.
It’s good to see Brits focusing on the important things, instead of seeing groups of Middle Eastern Muslim men terrorizing their little girls. Thousands of young British girls have been attacked by migrants in recent decades. Many rapists have never been arrested. Many received relatively light sentences. (RELATED: ‘Treated like a slave’: Horrifying details emerge of massive UK rape scandal)
For what it’s worth, I’d rather parents cared enough about their kids to not give them phones in the first place. But I understand that this is a task made difficult by schools mandating laptop use as part of their curriculum and by the social exclusion inflicted on children without phones. And by parents who don’t care.
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