How Will The Social Media Ban Change Children’s Lives?
6/16/202632 min
Today, what difference will banning social media make to children’s lives?
Speaking the day after the announcement of a ban on social media for under-16s the education secretary speaks to Adam in the Newscast studio.
They discuss; if children need to be bored more whether it’s OK for parents to watch youtube with their children and whether the school day should be longer?
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First 90 secondsAdam Fleming· Host0:00
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Adam Fleming· Host0:19
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Adam Fleming· Host0:34
[news jingle] Hello. On Tuesday morning we got a call from the education secretary's office saying that Bridget Phillipson wants to come to Newscast to talk about the social media ban, which was announced by the government on Monday. And we thought that would be a good opportunity to dig into some of the details of the policy and some of the reaction to it that we've had in the last 36 hours. But once we actually recorded the conversation, the education secretary was in a much more expansive mood, and we ended up talking about, well, basically, her mission to save Britain's childhoods. So we thought you would like to hear that whole conversation as an episode of Newscast.
Bridget Phillipson· Guest1:09
Newscast. Newscast from the BBC.
Asma Khalid1:12
Humanity's next great voyage begins.
Adam Fleming· Host1:15
We are in the midst of a rupture.
Bridget Phillipson· Guest1:17
Nostalgia will not bring back the old order.
Tristan Redmond1:19
6-7.
Adam Fleming· Host1:20
6-7.
Tristan Redmond1:20
Yeah.
Asma Khalid1:21
It's supposed to be me as a doctor.
Adam Fleming· Host1:23
That he has, has also a special connotation.
Speaker 51:25
Ooh la la.
Adam Fleming· Host1:26
Thinking about it like a panto helped.
Bridget Phillipson· Guest1:29
[laughs] Do we play music