Paul Barford
30.2K posts
@PortantIssues
British Archaeologist, archaeoblogger concerned about portable antiquities issues and cleaning up no-questions-asked antiquities trade. Retweet not endorsement.
🚨 SUMMARY: The UK's social media ban for children from early 2027: - "User-to-user" apps where people create, share and interact with content (e.g. TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, X, Facebook) will be banned for under-16s - WhatsApp, Signal and YouTube Kids will be exempt - Under-16s will also be banned from livestreaming, messaging strangers on gaming apps like Discord and using disappearing messages - 16 and 17 year olds will face nightly social media curfews and limits on infinite scrolling with more details next month - AI "romantic companion" chatbots will be banned for under-18s - Adults can still access social media through age checks like facial recognition, digital IDs, passports and credit cards
@RealCalypsoJack @Graham__Hancock @DeDunkingPast He‘s never broken a sweat at the site, never excavated a 10,000 year old building or recovered a single find. I’ve been doing it for a decade. He plays the expert to sell his stuff; but without the hard work of the research team, he’d have nothing to talk about. We don’t need him
