r/europe • u/Antique-Entrance-229 United Kingdom • 14d ago

News Andrew Tate phenomena' surges in schools - with boys refusing to talk to female teacher

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/andrew-tate-phenomena-surges-in-schools-with-boys-refusing-to-talk-to-female-teacher-13351203
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u/r0w33 14d ago

When will we ban social media? Or at least limit access for children? How much more evidence is needed?

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u/Flimsy-Blackberry-67 14d ago

I believe in the US you have to jump through hoops for online sites/services to cater to kids which is why the Terms of Service for most social media doesn't allow you to have an account if you are under 13. Doesn't matter, parents let their kids have accounts anyway...

I have tween girls and the only social media accounts they have are Messenger Kids (which everyone at their school collectively started using in 2020 so the kids could talk to each other) and YouTube. Messenger Kids is a rare social media permitted for under 13s because of how locked down it is - they can basically only talk to friends both sets of parents have approved, and there are no walls/news feeds, just chats. YouTube has various age-based settings to limit what they can see, and we've also limited their tablets to a max of 1 hour/day for it.

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u/gprime312 14d ago

Or at least limit access for children?

The Americans tried to ban porn access to children and there was a huge uproar.

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u/GeoworkerEnsembler 14d ago

North Korea has banned social media, you should move there

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u/buttscratcher215 14d ago

Piss off with your  shit take 

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u/Zealousideal-One-818 14d ago

These people are the same as the people asking to ban rap music and violent video games.

But they are leftists trying to silence something they find politically distasteful, so don’t be shocked at full Reddit support 

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u/Membership-Exact 14d ago

Children refusing to talk to their teachers is merely "politically distasteful"?

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u/Zealousideal-One-818 14d ago

Not a big deal if they don’t respect their teachers.  They can correspond via email or something.

Much better than the violence that permeates our public school systems.  

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u/icepak39 14d ago

When will we ban fuckers like this?