People of London: Should media companies be fined if children aren’t protected?

We ask Londoners if it’s too easy for children to see harmful content online and if media companies should be accountable.

Transcript

00:00Yeah, definitely. I mean, I'm a millennial. So my parents were getting told, be careful

00:06of your child having a mobile phone and be careful of the, you know, dangers of the internet

00:10when I was a teenager. And that is now a long time ago, 20 years ago, you know, almost that

00:17I was a teenager. And not really enough has been done in that time. And now it's not that

00:24it's teens getting access to the internet. It's toddlers getting access to the internet.

00:29And yeah, I think if you if you are a tech company, if you know that there are children

00:34using your platform, then absolutely responsibility does lie with you alongside parents to make

00:40sure that the content they're looking at is not going to harm them or traumatize them

00:45in some way.

00:46Yeah, I think children should be protected as much as possible, much more in terms of

00:51accessing harmful content. And whatever legislation or systems need to be put in place to increase

00:56that should be encouraged.