It’s not just porn: Cameron frets over Facebook and mobile gaming
David Cameron has outlined his concerns about the way his children use Facebook and mobile games, in an interview on the challenges of fatherhood.
A week after he gave a keynote speech pledging a default-on porn filter for families, the prime minister told Grazia magazine that he would insist that his children were supervised when first introduced to Facebook.
"All I want is to be able to see their Facebook pages, to start with," he said.
"Now everyone shows their pictures on Facebook, they need to think: well what about that job interview?"
He also expressed concern around new financial models for mobile phone games, many of which are free but charge users for giving their characters new attributes.
"You've set up some football game and the next thing you know, you own half of Real Madrid," he joked.
The interview with a leading women's magazine suggests the prime minister's advisers see the pornography and online safety issue as a useful way of connecting with female voters.
Cuts to child benefit and tax credits, as well as concerns over the NHS and childcare, have damaged the Tories' level of support among women.
Earlier this year an ICM poll for the Guardian put the Labour lead among women at 26-points, compared to just seven-points for men.
The prime minister said pornography could have a "corrosive" effect on young people if they saw it before they were "old enough to process it properly".
