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Reasons Revisited

40. SILICON VALLEY SERFS: protecting kids from tech overload

Reasons Revisited

Geoff Lloyd

Society & Culture, Government, News, Politics

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Hello! This week we've looked up from our phones to look down at the generation of children addicted to theirs. In the wild west of the internet, children aren't as safe as you may hope and it's not just from adult content. Our guests this week Baroness Beeban Kidron, founder of 5Rights Foundation, and Dr Richard Graham, a Consultant Adolescent Psychiatrist, explain why treating children as adults on their technology is such a worry and what we can do about it.


AND


Comedian John Robins is banning online comments, issuing chip licenses, alcohol pricing and funding to cure minor ailments 



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0:00.0

Is it me or Jafi? Inspired? Accelerated? Overcome with the sheer emotion of using a paint with such a wonderful depth of colour?

0:06.5

Yeah, I feel all of it poor.

0:08.7

Jafi, you feel a bit cold. Is what I was actually going to ask John?

0:12.5

Heritage by Duelux. It's a feeling.

0:17.2

This episode is brought to you by Podsave the UK, the new weekly politics podcast with Nishkama and Koko Kahn.

0:23.7

We've been big fans of Podsave America for years.

0:27.8

And now the people behind that podcast bring you the same sharp, smart, funny perspective to UK politics.

0:35.1

Now, as I said at the start, the hosts and Nishkama, love that guy?

0:38.8

You're knowing from the Masterport, count the other TV shows and podcasts and radio programs.

0:44.8

But as well as being one of the funniest people I know, he is also one of the cleverest.

0:49.2

And this is going to be the place where you get to hear that big old brain, given space to saw.

0:56.0

Honestly, Nishkama is wired directly into the mainframe of political news.

1:00.1

He's such an astute thinker and absolutely fearless.

1:03.8

And I was thrilled to see that he's teamed up with journalist Koko Kahn.

1:06.9

I have really enjoyed her writing these last few years.

1:10.0

What I love about the pairing is she is not yet another of the usual Westminster suspects.

1:14.6

Honestly, this is going to be funny. That's a given.

1:16.8

But he's also going to cut through the nonsense and dissect the political news that really matters.

1:21.8

And that's serious about the Podsave the UK thing.

1:24.1

I can think of no two finer candidates to heal a divided nation through the medium of digital audio.

1:30.2

Look, you're listening to our podcast.

1:31.9

This tells me that you must be an optimist.

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