In accordance with the Online Safety Act, the regulator has released its draft children’s safety codes of practice, which lay out the new guidelines that digital companies must abide by in order to protect children.
However, two moms feel “belittled” by the news for not listening to their bereaved parents, believing that their children died as a result of imitating risky social media tasks.
News met with the moms of 13-year-old Isaac Kenevan, who is thought to have died after participating in a choking challenge on social media, and 12-year-old Archie Battersbee, who passed away after a “prank or experiment” went awry at home.
Hollie, Archie’s mother, stated: “It’s heartbreaking to see a few parents going through what we are going through; this shouldn’t happen in a civilized society.”
