wilbursoot6969
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- Nov 1, 2023
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A newspaper on the bus about the Online Safety Bill
If you can't read the smaller text, it says "devastating new report led by Molly charity shows tech giants are targeting millions of children with harmful content". The girl pictured there is Molly Russell. She killed herself a few years ago and after her death her father has been campaigning to remove content related to suicide and self-harm from the internet, after it was found she had viewed images about suicide on Instagram and Pinterest before her death. I don't want to disrespect a man who's lost his child. But with the way he misattributes the cause of her death, I have to say something. All media reporting about her suicide entirely blames the images she was viewing for her decision to kill herself. To suggest that Molly killed herself because of those is a disgrace to her memory. She was looking at those images because she was suicidal, she didn't decide to kill herself because she saw them. Yet all news articles about her entirely attribute her death to the things she saw on the internet, stating she wanted to kill herself because she saw posts about being suicidal on the internet, and her father has been campaigning to remove content about suicide online because he believes it caused her death. Claiming she killed herself because of the posts she viewed is an insult to her. She was already suicidal due to other things in her life, she was looking at those things because she felt that way. But of course, all the media outlets and her family completely ignore that and constantly campaign to remove posts like those from the internet and claim they are responsible for her death.
This is, of course, incredibly linked with the situation going on in the UK at the moment with the Online Safety Bill and the government trying to remove content about suicide from the internet, and trying to take down this website. They are just relentlessly trying to remove all things like this from the internet.
This is, of course, incredibly linked with the situation going on in the UK at the moment with the Online Safety Bill and the government trying to remove content about suicide from the internet, and trying to take down this website. They are just relentlessly trying to remove all things like this from the internet.