The clock is ticking on TikTok and other social media giants.
Their wake-up call will come when the online safety bill becomes law.
But there may still have to be a few changes before the alarms are set and it passes in its final form in the next session of Parliament.
It will create a new duty of care by platforms for their users – and no one is in need of that more than the four schoolgirls we feature today.
They posed in school uniform and used TikTok to lure paypigs – web slang for men who pay to see graphic images – and in doing so risked coming into contact with predators and paedophiles.
These are vulnerable girls messing around in a dangerous playground.
They clearly do not know the risks they are running.
And that is why TikTok has 10,000 content moderators to protect such youngsters.
Yet the images stayed up for months.
And that is why TikTok has 10,000 content moderators to protect such youngsters.
Yet the images stayed up for months.
And they were only taken down by TikTok bosses when the Sunday Mirror confronted them with the evidence.
That is why online safety laws are so important.
Too many social media companies have taken the attitude that they are only responsible for the unacceptable content they see.
And if they do not look too hard they will not be held accountable. That is what this Bill will change.
Social media can be a great force for good.
But our young people still need the right legislation in place to protect them from the bad.
Target MPs
No one who experienced the last heatwave, or will go through the 40C scorcher later this month, can doubt that climate change is real and happening now.
So we can understand the fury and frustration of those who saw it coming years ago while world leaders just twiddled their thumbs.
They have every right to protest because demonstrations of public anger are a way to hold those leaders to account for their complacency.
Now Just Stop Oil is following in the steps of the likes of Extinction Rebellion with plans for the biggest civil disobedience campaign ever seen.
It will show the rage people feel about energy prices and demand that we end our reliance on fossil fuels.
Take that anger out on MPs, by all means.
But do please allow the rest of us to get on with our lives.
Feeling flush
Reggae fans have gone potty for toilet cleaner Steven Nicholas’ little number For Living which has gone to No11 in the Amazon chart.
Steven says he won’t pull the chain on his day job while prices are rocketing because he needs the steady income to spend his pennies.
But we do wish him every success with his music career. And perhaps he could cover that well-known Stevie Wonder hit.
I Just Called to Say I Love Loo.
