Keir Starmer 'could impose internet bans on ADULTS' warns peer in major censorship alert

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Britain risks heading down a "dangerous path" towards state control of the online public square, an independent peer has warned, as ministers consider a social media ban for under 16s.Speaking at a conference last week Baroness Fox of Buckley, a prominent free speech advocate, warned that banning young people from social media would hand sweeping powers to the state over how people communicate and access information.Baroness Fox also told the conference, hosted by the economic growth and public policy think tank, the Prosperity Institute, that calls to ban social media for under 16s are "authoritarian" and driven by "moral panic".And she warned banning young people from social media would hand sweeping powers to the state over how people communicate and access information.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say "You can't take young people out of the public square," she said.

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"This is how people communicate in the modern day and how they inform themselves."In one of her starkest warnings,...

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