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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The UK failed grooming gang victims by not seeing ‘children as children’⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Who said it was a problem? It’s funny because you could be saying that is too low or too high, who knows!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The UK failed grooming gang victims by not seeing ‘children as children’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It was more of a class and misogyny problem, which due to cultural reasons these groups of men were able to take advantage. There’s a story of police being called to a disturbance and found a group of older guys (mostly south Asian but there was a white guy too) with two teenage (I think about 15) drunk, working class girls. Instead of stepping back and thinking there’s something very strange going on here and seeing those girls as victims, who were vulnerable, potentially being groomed and obviously being taken advantage of, they arrested the girls for drunk and disorderly, were apologetic to the men and didn’t even record the names of those men.

  Statistically in the UK, most grooming and sexual violence is some by family members or family friends, against both boys and girls, and are perpetrated by white people simply because the UK is still 83% white! If any of these people truly cared about vulnerable children, they would focus on more than just these grooming gangs but that doesn’t rile up their base, get more likes and give them more support. Yeah, these horrible men need to be arrested and put away but let’s set up systems that try to prevent these children being harmed in the first place.

  This article is talking about the wider problems of children not being seen as victims, and agencies not communicating with each other. Whether it’s a black boy arrested for carrying drugs or a white girl ignored as being “promiscuous”, there are systemic issues in our system that need to be addressed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Research reveals “non-existent” enforcement of industry-led standards on loot boxes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Really? And did they self regulate their fees? Oh wait no, it took EU enforcement to cut down their fees and stop businesses passing them onto customers. The EU also enforced more security regulation, and more use of those by the banks themselves using these credit card processors who washed their hands of levels of security

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opinion: Just ignore all the myths about low-traffic neighbourhoods. They’re popular, effective and here to stay⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, it’s so much better. The main roads are clogged up but can see no difference to before with those, they were always bad. I haven’t seen any difference in driving times. Our road is so much quieter so seen kids playing on the street (not often at all but the roads are still setup for cars of residents), and the drop constant noise that I didn’t notice until it had gone.

  I think the next step should be to flip from it being a road with a small pavement to a shared communal area with priority for people, space for kids to play properly and actual green space. There could still be enough road to get to houses and car spaces. When the road was closed for that jubilee party it was so nice! Saw way more of my neighbours and all the kids were out playing together. Can’t see it happening though…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Police launch urgent search after girl, 11, falls into River Thames⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s really sad, feel especially bad for the kids who were with her who are going to feel this for the rest of their lives