Who should decide what we can see online? Birmingham shares its view

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With the government pushing for more control over online content, we asked people in Birmingham whether they support online censorship - and who they think should be responsible for deciding what’s safe to see.

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00:01I mean, I'm against the Stop Online Safety Act, particularly with younger folks being

00:06able to vote and the fact that political content has been censored through it.

00:11That's my main concern.

00:13You can't restrict political information to 16- to 18-year-old voters.

00:20But I also don't necessarily trust the government to choose what we can and can't view.

00:25It's not necessarily about adult or erotic content.

00:28It's about who is deciding what content is inappropriate and when does it cross into

00:32the political.

00:33For kids there needs to be more security for what they see.

00:38There's way too many kids getting bullied online at the moment.

00:43Cases of, you know, like teenagers committing suicide because they've been tricked into

00:47something.

00:48You know, it's terrible.

00:51I think pornography and stuff like that on the internet is a disgrace.

00:58It corrupts.

00:59It corrupts.

01:00It corrupts.

01:01It corrupts.

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