claims that popular dating apps like tend and grindr road leading to the sexual abuse of children has not prompted the u.k. government to take action i will be writing to these companies asking what measures they have in place to keep children safe from home including very far in the age the increased scrutiny follows an investigation by british newspaper the sunday times it found that children are easily able to dodge age restrictions and end up being matched with adults resulting in sexual offenses being committed since twenty fifteen more than thirty cases of child rape following online matches have been reported to british police sixty other instances of sexual assault on minors are also under investigation include grooming kidnapping and violent sexual assault victims were able to evade the matchmaking abs age checks which are currently set at eighteen and over meantime grindr says it's made big efforts towards enforcing age restrictions grindr is committed to creating a safe and secure environment to help our community connect and thrive and any account of sexual abuse or other

at eighteen and over attend says it's made significant efforts towards enforcing age restrictions grindr is committed to creating a safe and secure environment to help our community connect and thrive and any account of sexual abuse or other illegal behavior is troubling to us as well as a clear violation of our terms of service we are consistently evaluating and refining our processes to prevent underage access and we'll always work with law enforcement where possible to protect our users as well we don't want minors on tender period and we discussed the issue with a social media lawyer yet a cohen and stephen morris of the english democrats northwest. the parents and the children his victims here they've been abandoned on for such a long time i think it is about time that the government intervene and create some laws and regulations and also so media companies who are much responsibly parents have full responsibility to make sure that their child climate issues all that they are properly monitored can be used to be can bypass it making it fake id these are always ways around it if they

this is lax controls we are talking about on things like tinder and grindr and so on, giving predatoryw can you expect these giants to take control and learn. parental control who has the pastoral care? our children grew up well before this, and it does seem to me to be a complete nightmare, because i use quite a lot of social media, things like twitter are very important for myjob. but do i really understand the ins and outs of it? but i think it must be said, hearing sir nick clegg talking during the week, and looking at the way that the russell story as you mentioned has really made big news in america, that it seems to me that facebook and the really big ones are still playing catch up, but it is how they can be helped over this hurdle. i don't know how you stop somebody who really is out to deceive you about theirage, really is out to deceive you about their age, which adolescents will do, how you can enforce that.|j their age, which adolescents will do, how you can enforce that. i was going to say that, these are adolescents going these apps, it is not as if they are being drawn

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