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Speaker 1: Bryan Bridge.

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Speaker 2: TikTok's been at Parliament today. They obviously don't want to

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Speaker 2: be regulated no media, well no company generally wants to

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Speaker 2: be regulated, but particularly not TikTok. So what they did

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Speaker 2: is commission research from Toolbook Mills and they found that

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Speaker 2: only one in three parents have rules for their children

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Speaker 2: around social media. Which is interesting because you hear parents

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Speaker 2: say all the time, well, my kids, you know, turn

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Speaker 2: into a zombie because they're on their phone all the time. Well, actually,

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Speaker 2: do we have the rules in place? Makes sense as

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Speaker 2: an advocacy group for children online safety co found a

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Speaker 2: Hollybrookers with me now, Holly, good evening, good evening, Good

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Speaker 2: to have you here. Are you surprised to hear that number?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I am surprised to hear that number.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't it doesn't really reflect what is happening for

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Speaker 1: our parents and for our young people.

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Speaker 2: So you think the numbers wrong.

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Speaker 1: So I'm really sorry, but can you repeat the sorry

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Speaker 1: you said? I actually got a bit mud of at up.

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Speaker 2: One in three parents have rules around their children's social

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Speaker 2: media in place. This is what according to the tour

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Speaker 2: Block Mills. So so, in other words, two thirds of

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Speaker 2: parents potentially don't have rules.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yes, yes, I mean I think that

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Speaker 1: this is an area that parents are really struggling with

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Speaker 1: the parents, you know, and that your education work that

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Speaker 1: I do, parents are really struggling to keep up and

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Speaker 1: to put boundaries in place because there's so many platforms

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Speaker 1: and where you know, we're really encouraged parents to use

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Speaker 1: prind or controls and put boundaries in place, but it

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Speaker 1: is hard to implement that on across many different platforms

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Speaker 1: and devices. And often, you know, parents actually aren't that

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Speaker 1: aware of what their kids are doing online. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I have I have many stories of pearances Principles talking

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Speaker 1: to me and saying, appearances don't actually think their kids

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Speaker 1: are on social media, and they find out that they

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Speaker 1: are when something unfolds with students at school. So you know,

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Speaker 1: it's you've got to take these these types of results

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Speaker 1: with the grain of salt.

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Speaker 2: But isn't that I mean, can you as a parent

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Speaker 2: pleaded naivety? You know, isn't it your job to know

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Speaker 2: what you're especially if they're eleven, twelve, thirteen, I mean,

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Speaker 2: they're the biggest liars under the sun, you know, isn't

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Speaker 2: it your job to know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, you know, it's really important that as

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Speaker 1: parents that we step up and that we engage with

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Speaker 1: the with what's happening online, with conversations with our kids,

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Speaker 1: and we actually understand what's happening in this space. But

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Speaker 1: to date, there hasn't been a lot of conversation around

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Speaker 1: the harms that are happening online for our young people.

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Speaker 1: And it's great that we're kind of really starting to

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Speaker 1: have some good, robust conversations about that. But in saying that,

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Speaker 1: where many years behind the rest of the world in

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Speaker 1: terms of many countries around the world, I should say,

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Speaker 1: in terms of actually putting any kind of systemic kind

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Speaker 1: of measures in place to manage this. But you know,

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Speaker 1: it is a printal responsibility. But it's also bigger than that.

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Speaker 1: It's really difficult for parents to manage tech and it's exploded,

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Speaker 1: you know, with normalized giving our kids' phones very young

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Speaker 1: and giving them access to everything on the internet, and

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Speaker 1: we do need to scale that back, but I do

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Speaker 1: think that we need more support from a kind of

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Speaker 1: regulatory approach.

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Speaker 2: But both Holly, thank you for that. Hollybrooker makes sense,

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Speaker 2: co founder on TikTok heading to Parliament today.

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