Danny Dyer on why Netflix's Adolescence is so important

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00:00We need to discuss what's going on with our boys in particular and why they're so lost at the moment.

00:05Social media is destroying the planet and it's just bred hatred.

00:10Have you watched Adolescence?

00:12I'm two episodes in, Stephen Graham is a friend of mine, a brilliant man, brilliant actor

00:17and I think he's really tapped into something.

00:19As a parent myself, your safe space for your child is their bedroom

00:23and when you are punishing them it's like, okay, you're going to go to your room.

00:26But actually the most dangerous place they can be is in their bedroom on their phone

00:28where they're opened up to this whole world of darkness and we can't regulate it.

00:33And that's why people like Andrew Tate exist unfortunately

00:36and as long as social media is about, they will always exist.

00:39So what do you want to do?

00:40I like the fact in Australia no one's allowed on social media until they're 16.

00:43Why can't we try that here?

00:45There's two worlds, the real world and then the online world

00:47and the online world is a very, very dark place unfortunately.

00:50I think it's proved it doesn't work.