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Should anti-fair right marches also be anti-tech?
The anti far-right march of an estimated half a million people in London on Saturday (Metro, Mon) would have been more effective if it were anti-AI and anti-tech.
Rich trust-fund kids running tech companies have managed to take our jobs away and, without our spending power, tax revenue is faltering and failing to support healthcare and welfare systems.
When jobs are scarce and welfare is dismantled, people point fingers and search for scapegoats.
And you wonder why the online world is fanning the flames of division? Because it is in the best interest of the tech bros to set us against each other, so that we never unite against them.
So if you really feel brave, protest against the rich and greedy tech bosses who are funding almost every single party and MP in this country, and who are getting contract after contract from governments across the world under the hollow banners of efficiency and security, only to make us poorer, hungrier and angrier. Catherine Croft, London
Will panic over social media pass?
Regarding calls for a social media ban on under-16s after a US jury found Meta and Google responsible for a woman’s addiction to Instagram and YouTube (Metro, Fri).
It is said that as a child, NHS founder Nye Bevan had had to hide his copies of The Magnet from his disapproving father.
There were similar objections to ‘penny dreadfuls’, comics, radio, cinema, television, so-called ‘girlie’ magazines, video nasties – what’s this talk about social media but another moral panic?
And, in reply to young Olivia – who you quoted as saying ‘social media sets unbeatable standards that teenagers fight to become’ – don’t we all aspire to be better than we are, be it good looks, sporting prowess, talent or whatever? Mark Taha, London
If UK ships look like ‘toys’, why should they fight?
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If president Donald Trump describes UK naval ships as ‘toys’ (Metro, Fri) why does he expect their arsenal to fight the Iran war? Mohan Tailor, Greenford
Reader points out the true size of UK aircraft carriers
Raj (MetroTalk, Mon) says Trump is right about our aircraft carriers looking like ‘toys’ compared with those from other nations.
I don’t know whether Raj has bothered to look but HMS Prince Of Wales and HMS Queen Elizabeth – at 65,000 tonnes each – are the third largest carriers in the world by country – only behind the US carriers and one in China.
They are also significantly bigger than Europe’s next largest carrier, France’s Charles de Gaulle. Steve, Camberley
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