Chris Stokel-Walker

And so do I want to just have them

Great.

Tackle the infinite scroll then.

How do you do that?

is that the government was going to have that.

They did announce around about a month and a half ago that they were going to put into the fields a scientific test that would look at different interventions.

So it would test a curfew.

It would test an outright prohibition on social media.

It would test, I think, a smartphone ban as well and also have a control group where nothing happened.

But they've now put the cart before the horse and said, well, we're going to ban this anyway.

So that becomes pointless.

We could have waited until Australia came back with results.

This is the consequence of 20 years of let them just do what they want approach to regulation.

They don't do it because I think it's not necessarily a vote winner to say, we have stopped the infinite scroll, in the same way that it is...

to say we have banned social media.

This is the thing that really hurts and annoys me the most about this is there are people saying, the parents saying, yeah, this is fantastic.

This is brilliant.

Perhaps not realising or just choosing to ignore the fact that this isn't done for that reason.

This is because this is a vote winner.

You think?