Submitted on Wednesday 8th December 2021
Rejected on Monday 13th December 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Ban the infinite scroll.
Banning the infinite scroll is included in the proposed Social Media Addiction Reduction Technology (SMART) Act in the USA. Studying this act will further inform the importance of this petition. It is at the heart of fuelling social media addiction, taking choice away from the user.
I do not need to list all the negative externalities of social media addiction as they are well known and easy to research. Mental health has been disregarded in history and it is time to act to now. It is also a very simple bill, causing little ‘effort’ for companies to change.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Petitions must call for a specific action that the UK Government or Parliament are directly responsible for.
Decisions about how users navigate websites are a matter for website designers, not the Government or Parliament. As a result it is not possible for the Government or Parliament to take the action you have requested.
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