This is a vital petition to allow parent's to access children's social media accounts (living or deceased). This is driven by Ellen Roome who lost her child and she has no idea what triggered his death. She is wanting closure for her and her family - but more importantly wants to ensure that children are safeguarded against harmful social media content which could influence a child's decisions and actions negatively. This isn't a privacy issue but about protection and safeguarding. It is known that the brain is only fully developed and matured in the mid-to-late 20s. The prefrontal cortex at the front of the brain, is responsible for all important skills like * making good decisions * reasoning * solving * impulse control * awareness of one's and other's functioning. Social media is a powerful medium and whilst it plays a role in educating, knowledge sharing, broadening our viewpoints, can also be extremely dangerous when undeveloped minds are fed misleading information which can have disastrous consequences if there is no means of intervention. Please sign the petition if you agree.
#Joolslaw - I want to change the laws around social media. Parents don’t have the right to see what their children are viewing – That’s wrong! It's too late for my son Jools, but I WILL make a difference for others.
Updated 126000 signatures obtained, a massive thank you to all **********. TRIGGER WARNING. ************ This is a VERY hard watch and talks of the death of my son Jools aged 14. Please don’t watch if you think it might affect you. This is re reality of what I am dealing with! I am praying we reach this target of 100,000 signatures but I still need 29,000 and running out of time. Midnight on Wednesday is the cut-off. PLEASE PLEASE SIGN. With your help, we can do this. #JoolsLaw https://lnkd.in/ey4ugbZT. THANK YOU (Thank you to the amazing Grace Carter who has once again given up here time to me to make this for me)
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5moThanks for sharing Meryl Bengtsson, this is SO important. Social media is great sometimes, and terrible at others. 100% it needs to be accessible for parents as well as better regulated! This is why there are campaigns to ban smartphones for under 14 or 16 year olds, because things like social media are so hard to control if you are a parent 😩 Personally I find it ridiculously frustrating! We even tried a new wifi provider EE Home which said it allows you to cut off wifi access by device but it simply doesn't work as well as it should do. It's so important to give parents the tools to protect their kids!