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I really worry that if when children are groomed on social media after the ban, they will be taken less seriously because by definition they won't be the "perfect victim".

Imagine if you were groomed at, say, age 13 under these circumstances. You can't use in-app features to report it because they've all been taken down now that the whole app is supposedly child-free. You can't go to your parents because you know they'll be angry. You have a trusted adult at school but exactly how far can they be trusted? Now you have to do a cost-benefit analysis at 13 years old to weigh up the risks associated with seeking help against the danger you are in. And even if the trusted adult believes you, the established safeguarding pathways have all been either dismantled or heavily defunded by the Government because, again, you weren't supposed to be there.

ohhhh i get it. sometimes you need to leave things in the past because that’s where they’re happy and that’s where they live and trying desperately and futilely to claw them back to you now, in the present, is wildly disrespectful to yourself…