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Feedback: What did big tech find when it looked inside a black hole?

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12 June 2019

State nanny

The Children’s Commissioner for England, responsible for protecting the rights of the little ‘uns, is unhappy with big tech firms that insist they can’t block under-13s from their platforms.

“Can it really be the case that they can create driverless cars, see inside black holes and programme computers to beat the best human players of complex games like Go, but not find ways of making digital platforms fit for purpose for children?” wrote Anne Longfield in . “Of course not. And for the record, I’ve been reassured that it is all very possible.”

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