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[00:23:30] or severely restricts it. One of the latest is the British
[00:23:33] government, which said that starting next year, social media apps must block
[00:23:37] access for children under 16, otherwise, they will face heavy
[00:23:41] fines. This reaction by a student was widely picked up
[00:23:44] by social media.
[00:23:45] گرفت.
[00:24:20] or for a growing and developing brain, it's like
[00:24:23] a low dose of poison that is used
[00:24:26] every day. We know this, the data is showing us this, statistics are
[00:24:30] showing us this. Now, whether it will be successful or not, or
[00:24:34] whether something we ban
[00:24:36] becomes more attractive,
[00:24:40] especially for
[00:25:01] phones, tablets, and social networks for everything, we are ignoring
[00:25:05] more important factors, from parents' economic problems and
[00:25:08] family tensions to the crisis of loneliness and
[00:25:12] lack of mental health services, which of course
[00:25:15] are deeper problems and cannot be banned overnight with a
[00:25:19] decree or order. It's not surprising that politicians prefer to
[00:25:22] ban social networks as a first step, because setting up playgrounds,
[00:25:26] community centers, and stadiums specifically for children is both
[00:25:30] very expensive and takes longer to achieve results, let alone
[00:25:33] reducing financial pressure on ordinary families, which is the root of many
[00:25:37] problems for teenagers in recent years. These things take
[00:25:40] a lot of work. Critics say blanket bans actually put
[00:25:44] children at greater risk.
[00:25:46] میده.
[00:25:49] Our concern is that children will move to other platforms to communicate
[00:25:53] with each other, which have fewer regulations, or are on the dark
[00:25:56] web. The ban on social networks in Australia
[00:26:00] is still very new, but...
[00:26:32] And this way, children will no longer have the same restrictions as teenage
[00:26:36] accounts. This is why perhaps the main question is not
[00:26:40] whether the ban on social networks for children
[00:26:43] works or not. The more important question is how we can create a healthier
[00:26:47] relationship between these future generations and technology.
[00:26:51] The most important principle for us to be able to protect
[00:26:54] our children is to have a relationship with them, to have a deep relationship
[00:26:58] with them, so that there is trust in it, and then an alternative.
[00:27:28] Do you think these restrictions work? If you have a teenager around
[00:27:33] you, what have you done to help them use online spaces
[00:27:36] better? What other solutions come to your mind
[00:27:39] for improving
[00:27:41] the situation?
[00:27:45] It's been a few months since the internet was reconnected, but in practice, many VPNs still work
[00:27:49] poorly or disconnect frequently. Well, the reality is that the internet in Iran
[00:27:52] has not yet returned to its pre-massacre and war state. So, what
[00:27:56] is its situation? Monitoring groups say that currently, users in Iran still have a
[00:28:00] fragile and deteriorating connection to the internet,
[00:28:03] but the so-called national internet, or in fact, the intranet, which
[00:28:07] the Iranian government is encouraging or forcing people to use,
[00:28:10] despite all these restrictions and increased costs,
[00:28:14] has still not been able to replace the internet for many people.
[00:28:17] A survey conducted by ISPA tells us that still
[00:28:20] 71% of users are using foreign social networks.
[00:28:24] Of course, the dominant pattern is that they usually have an account on at least one
[00:28:28] of the domestic platforms or messaging apps, and they also use foreign
[00:28:31] social networks. The reason for their use of those
[00:28:35] domestic platforms, I think, is clear, because from approximately the winter of last
[00:28:39] year to the spring of this year, almost half of this period we did not have access to
[00:28:42] international internet. We faced various types of filtering, restrictions
[00:28:46] were intensified, and besides that, we still cannot call
[00:28:50] this voluntary migration to domestic platforms, for the reason that many
[00:28:53] users are still forced to use these domestic platforms or domestic messaging
[00:28:57] apps for various administrative, educational, and medical services.
[00:29:01] There are a few other interesting pieces of data that
[00:29:04] clarify the situation of domestic platforms. One is
[00:29:08] that 74% still use VPNs, and
[00:29:12] in fact, this survey has highlighted this.
[00:29:15] And a question was asked about which platform is your priority for unfiltering,
[00:29:19] to which approximately 48% named Instagram and
[00:29:22] approximately 21% named Telegram. Therefore, we can conclude
[00:29:26] that the data from the ISPA survey tells us that the policies
[00:29:30] of internet disruption, filtering, and
[00:29:32] everything else have not yet been able to discourage users or persuade them to
[00:29:36] use domestic platforms.
[00:30:28] We just found out about this attack. We will decide about it quickly.
[00:30:31] We will do it soon.
[00:30:34] Will the Houthis' claim of responsibility for the attack on Riyadh International Airport
[00:30:38] and the escalation of attacks on Saudi Arabia draw the US into the Yemen war?
[00:30:41] We ask a former British diplomat in the region
[00:30:45] what his assessment of the current situation in the Arabian Peninsula
[00:30:49] is. We ask a media activist close
[00:30:52] to the Houthis why they target
[00:30:56] civilian areas.