Under-18s should be prevented by social media companies from texting sexually explicit images, the health secretary has said. Hunt said social media firms needed to do more to combat the culture of online intimidation and sexual imagery, which is having a negative impact on the mental health of young people. “There is a lot of evidence that the technology industry, if they put their mind to it, can do really smart things. Because there is technology that can identify sexually explicit pictures and prevent it being transmitted. “I ask myself why we can’t identify cyberbullying when it happens on social media platforms by word pattern recognition, and then prevent it happening.

Source: The Guardian November 29, 2016 23:16 UTC