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UK Gov't Wants Facebook To Feature Child Safety Button

Posted by timothy on from the extreme-unction dept.

judgecorp writes "Harriet Harman, the deputy leader of the Labour Party, has said that UK government ministers are 'taking action' to get Facebook to add a British child protection button (called CEOP) to its site. The move comes after the UK's Daily Mail withdrew allegations that teenagers on Facebook are continually pestered — though Facebook is still considering suing the paper. The campaign apparently ignores Facebook's assertion that it already has better child protection in place and the CEOP button would be limited to the UK."

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  1. Harridan Harperson can suck my cock. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Harridan Harperson can suck my cock.

  2. Well - Since its Harriet Harman involved by Chrisq · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Since its Harriet Harman involved I expect that the pressing of the button will result in the immediate rounding up of all males over 12 involved in the conversation for incarceration without trial. And it obviously won't matter what was said, because it will be the "emotion affect" on the kid pressing the button that counts, not the actual words.

    1. Re:Well - Since its Harriet Harman involved by Manip · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Agreed.
      It is shocking how sexist she is and how much she gets away with "because she was a women." Heck she was even short listed for her position BECAUSE she was a women.

      Ultimately we differ in opinion because she believes the means justify the ends (e.g. positively biased for women will counterbalance history and everyone will be equal), where I believe we promote *equality* and the problem will fix its self in time.

      She for example introduced a bill that mandated they employ women over men if both are equally qualified. They also placed no limits on how far this should go or when it should end. This bill directly impacts jobs that are already dominated by women so they cannot employ men.

    2. Re:Well - Since its Harriet Harman involved by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Similar to how anti-semitism is defined as being against the policies of the current Israeli government (by them anyway)?

  3. Typical Labour policy by abigsmurf · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Allowing Children on the internet to quickly and easily label anyone they like a child abuser. What could possibly go wrong?

    It gets better though, if you are ever accused of child abuse, it goes on record and will be returned whenever an employer does a background check. Doesn't matter if the allegations are complete rubbish and everyone acknowledges this. It'll still haunt you for life.

    To top it all off, there's a condition that the government can put on your record making the information on your background check confidential to anyone. Including yourself. You can fail a background check and never you have failed one. The employer can't tell you you've failed, so if there's a mistake on your background check, it is impossible to get it remedied and your life is basically ruined.

  4. Not surprising by Manip · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Frankly this isn't a shock given our current government's tracks record.
      - Licence to take kids to football practice
      - Licence to own a dog (and third party liability insurance)
      - CCTV Cameras on every street corner
      - An "equality opportunity" amendment which promotes racist and sexist hiring (what the hell?)
      - Virtual strip search at every airport
      - ID Cards
      - et al

    Being extremely liberal is great. But some days I wish the UK had a little more of the things American conservatives love (e.g. Personal Freedom, less interference).

  5. Facebook here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    We respect your concerns about child safety, so we've installed a Child Safety Button for our younger users. It's a big "X" located in the upper-right corner of Facebook. Macs don't use X technology, so we built a red button for their Facebook instead. We're pretty sure those are the only two Facebooks anyone uses.

  6. I can see a great flaw in your plan by Chrisq · · Score: 5, Funny
    I can see a great flaw in your plan

    If you're a British politician, you automatically go on "Arsebook".

    Most British politicians could not distinguish this from Elbowbook.

  7. Speaking as a UK resident. by GuyFawkes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You basically only have to walk down the street with your ears open.

    Back when I were a lad, it was routine to insult kids who were not of your group, fatty, lanky, ginger, smelly, stinky, etc.

    Today the default insult is "paedo"

    I've lost count of the number of times I have seen teenagers and younger, of both sexes, respond to an adult who tells them off for something, eg "stop fucking around with my car" with chants of "paedo!"

    Teachers in UK schools essentially live in fear of one of the kids responding to being told off for setting fire to little johnny in 2A with an accusation of violence or sexual assault being made against the teacher.

    You won't find a small kid who does not already;

    a/ own a mobile phone
    b/ know the childline and other abuse numbers by heart

    We are sowing what we reaped.

    I say in all sincerity, there are a LOT of adults today who have learned this lesson so well that they could witness either an adult women or a schoolgirl being gang raped, and simply walk on by, deliberately seeing nothing, as being the only safe option.

    http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/

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