With Ofcom introducing punishments for media companies that fail to keep children safe on their platforms, we ask Birmingham parents if they think this move will make a real difference. Are they concerned about the content their children or younger relatives encounter on platforms like Instagram or Facebook? Is enough being done to protect young users, or are more urgent changes needed?
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00:00I think that it's a parent's responsibility to protect their children
00:05though I don't really think it's the platform. I think that parents should be
00:10checking what their children are looking at because the platform can't, like if the
00:15parental settings aren't on there the platform isn't always going to know how
00:19old that child is anyway if they put a fake age. They should probably do a lot
00:23more like identity checks for certain platforms to make sure the people
00:28signing off are the right age.
00:30Yeah Ofcom promises a lot of things, Ofcom says it'll do a lot of things, it never does.
00:34It doesn't regulate anything. If Ofcom wants to do anything then what they need
00:38to do is actually get off their backsides and start regulating social
00:42media sites. They wouldn't do because they're too frightened.
00:45Personally I think the whole thing should be overturned, everyone should be
00:49sacked and the whole thing should be redone. But yes I think social media is a
00:53worrying thing. I've got lots of younger relatives and my brother for instance he
00:56has access, I don't know what he has access to.