Prince Harry Shares Plea for Child Safety After Thomas Markle Arrest

Prince Harry is demanding a change.

Four days after Meghan Markle’s father Thomas Markle Sr. was arrested for possession of child sex abuse materials, the Duke of Sussex spoke out about the dangers minors face on social media.  

“How did we reach a point where we can build technology capable of extraordinary things, yet still struggle to make it safe for a child?” Harry said during his Nov. 10 speech at the Lost Screen Memorial, which honors children who lost their lives due to the harms of social media, in Belgium, per People. “I’m not here as an expert or a politician. I’m here as a father. My wife, as a mother.”

That’s why Harry—who shares kids Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lilibet, 5, with Meghan—is calling for reform.

“We rarely ask technology to be less ambitious,” he said. “We’re told it will transform education. Cure disease. Solve problems we once thought impossible. Why should our ambition stop there?”