We ask Londoners if it’s too easy for children to see harmful content online and if media companies should be accountable.
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00:00Yeah, definitely. I mean, I'm a millennial. So my parents were getting told, be careful
00:06of your child having a mobile phone and be careful of the, you know, dangers of the internet
00:10when I was a teenager. And that is now a long time ago, 20 years ago, you know, almost that
00:17I was a teenager. And not really enough has been done in that time. And now it's not that
00:24it's teens getting access to the internet. It's toddlers getting access to the internet.
00:29And yeah, I think if you if you are a tech company, if you know that there are children
00:34using your platform, then absolutely responsibility does lie with you alongside parents to make
00:40sure that the content they're looking at is not going to harm them or traumatize them
00:45in some way.
00:46Yeah, I think children should be protected as much as possible, much more in terms of
00:51accessing harmful content. And whatever legislation or systems need to be put in place to increase
00:56that should be encouraged.