Digital Safety: Children
Debate between Kanishka Narayan and Edward Leigh(5 days, 13 hours ago)
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Sir Edward Leigh (Gainsborough) (Con)
Rather than trading party political points, can we all agree that these huge companies are rotting our children’s minds with addictive algorithms? While we know that banning things seldom works because people circumvent it and it leads to criminality, will the Minister and the Prime Minister go to these companies and say that they are in the last chance saloon—either they take decisive action, which we know they can do, or we will ban children from going on social media?
Kanishka Narayan
In characteristic fashion, the Father of the House has given wise counsel, and I will very much take it to heart in the way that the Government act.
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Debate between Kanishka Narayan and Edward Leigh(2 months, 3 weeks ago)
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Sir Edward Leigh (Gainsborough) (Con)
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology (Kanishka Narayan)
First, may I affirm the importance of the project that the right hon. Gentleman is talking about? The Government are backing the future of nuclear fusion across the country, and this site in particular has a huge contribution to make. Construction will be on its way by the end of the decade, with research and development tests before that. At the heart of it, we will be backing the use of AI to further our clean energy goals in fusion and beyond.