{"id":134730,"date":"2025-02-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134730"},"modified":"2025-02-06T05:15:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T10:15:47","slug":"londontimes-social-media-for-children-like-cancer-risk-of-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134730","title":{"rendered":"[(London)Times] Social media for children \u2018like cancer risk of smoking\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8216;[UK head of counterterrorism Matt Jukes] suggested that social media should be restricted for children in a similar way to smoking. \n\nThe senior policing figure said the UK could not afford to take the same amount of time to tackle the impact of social media as that of smoking. \n\nJukes said: \u201cIf I give you a parallel with the harm caused by smoking, by 1950, it was clear that smoking was causing lung cancer and killing people&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/uk\/crime\/article\/social-media-cancer-puts-childrens-lives-at-risk-anti-terror-chief-says-dlzcbwcr6\">Read it all<\/a> (subscription).<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The harm created by social media is similar to the \u201ccancer\u201d caused by smoking, Britain\u2019s head of counterterrorism has claimed, as he called for a ban on its use by children &#x2b07;&#xfe0f;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CUf5cfmmh6\">https:\/\/t.co\/CUf5cfmmh6<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Times and The Sunday Times (@thetimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thetimes\/status\/1887395809739649282?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;[UK head of counterterrorism Matt Jukes] suggested that social media should be restricted for children in a similar way to smoking. The senior policing figure said the UK could not afford to take the same amount of time to tackle<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134730\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,433,94,101,199,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-social-networking","category-blogging-the-internet","category-children","category-england-uk","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134730"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134736,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134730\/revisions\/134736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}