Debate contribution: Online Harms: Impact on Young People
Debate contribution by Mr Danny Baker on .
- MLA
- Mr Danny Baker
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 13 May 2025
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Private Members' Business
- Heading
- Online Harms: Impact on Young People
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4948128
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Does the Member agree that smartphones and apps are useful tools for educators and pupils, and that the onus should be more on us, as parents, to educate ourselves, particularly around the new incel subculture and the language of 80:20, black pill and kidney beans? We need to learn all that. Responsibility for that should not always fall to schools.
60 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Assessment
Jev’s structured answers met the documented threshold for “not qualifying”.
- Overall probability that the activity is being used to promote, exploit or escalate an identity-based controversy: 0.15 (qualifying needs at least 0.70; at or below 0.30 is not qualifying).
- None of the five culture-war criteria was met (each was below 0.60).
- Assessed as legitimate policy scrutiny (0.65).
- No identity-based framing was identified (0.71).
- Subject area: Sexism, misogyny, ageism and other equality groups.
- The overall probability was at or below the not-qualifying threshold.
This is an AI-generated assessment of the text, made against published criteria. It is not a finding of fact about the MLA or their intentions. The Assembly record itself is the fact.
Jev’s structured answers
| Question | Probability | Met? |
|---|---|---|
| Identity framing | 0.07 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.08 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.02 | No |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.24 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.17 | No |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.65 | Yes |
| Overall judgement | 0.15 | At or below not-qualifying threshold |
| Option | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-based framing (chosen) | 0.71 |
| Reports or questions it | 0.12 |
| Criticises or condemns it | 0.01 |
| Adopts it | 0.16 |
| Subject | Probability |
|---|---|
| Sexism, misogyny, ageism and other equality groups | 0.50 |
| Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues | 0.36 |
| No identity-related subject | 0.11 |
| Education structures, integration and community division | 0.02 |
| Another identity-related subject | 0.01 |
Assessed 21 October 2026 at 12:36 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.
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