“companies needs to be more responsible, but they are not going to be until they are fined otherwise, so government has to step up and regulate them more, and fine them” – Woman, 35-44, London
“Platforms need to spend a lot more money policing harmful content. They will take down copyrighted material within minutes, so they should be able to do this for harmful content.” – Woman, 45-54, East of England
“There is no way that government can stop children interacting with social media, matter what barriers they try and put in place. Kids grew up with technology. The onus must be on the platform owners to monitor creator content.” – Man, 55+, Yorkshire and the Humber
“It wouldn’t be easy but the companies need to take more responsibility for what they allow on their platforms and should be held to account when bad things happen. Fines and prison sentences for those at the top.” – Woman, 55+, London
“Yeah, the government is looking at this all wrong. Get tougher on the problem (bullies and nonces) and let kids be kids.” – Man, 45-54, North West England
“Big tech companies should not be allowed to self regulate.” – Woman, 25-34, London
“i feel if there are any problems with children using social media, it is up to the parents and not the government to regulate that behavior […] parent’s literally brought the children into this world, a government is not here to tell parents how to bring up their children” – Man, 55+, Scotland
