Boy, 11, died trying social media craze - family
It is about time those who make these videos were prosecuted, and held to account, in the meantime hold the CEOs accountable and responsible for EVERY DEATH.
Ofcom need to grow some and take action, they are the regulator for the online safety bill.
if glue sniffing / solvent abuse had been portrayed as anything fun/positive on kids / youth TV in my younger days, the programme would have been instantly taken off air and the producers would find it very hard to get work in the industry again (this didn't stop producers discussing the subject and warning of the risks)
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I remember this; whilst it was somewhat overblown and had little effect on usage patterns as we got to our later teens, drug usage wasn't normalised as much (I was a raver back in the day and even then we kept very quiet about what we did outside our circle of friends and didn't encourage younger teens to partake, at least until they had finished high school and there was even an element of harm reduction on this scene)