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Should social media be banned? : Comments

By Mal Fletcher, published 1/2/2019

Is the threat of a ban the right approach? After all, huge numbers of people rely on these platforms, as gateways into news gathering and business opportunities.

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Ban a medium whereby generally powerless people can have a say, just because a few weak, pathetic characters do away with themselves because someone said something they don't like? You cannot be serious!

“Governments are under pressure to act”. By whom? The mainstream media whose lies and bigoted left reporting social media threatens and reveals just how irresponsible the traditional media has become?

Social media is not just Facebook. Start censoring that or banning that, and the next thing you know, the Marxist nannies will be attacking and destroying Online Opinion and privately run blogs. We have already seen what the outrageous so-called human rights commision and the activists courts have done to people like Andrew Bolt.

We are subjected to enough Far Left authoritarianism now, thanks very much.
Posted by ttbn, Friday, 1 February 2019 7:53:28 AM
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Some social media needs to be banned for sure, but we also need a ban on private phone numbers. There's nothing more infuriating than getting missed calls & being unable to call back.
Especially calls from Govt departments.
Going back to social media, I think it'd be sensible to put a minimum age of 15-18 to join. I mean, many adults don't have sufficient sense so we can't really expect 12 year olds to be any better. I remember when I saw a group of school kids sitting in the bus shelter watching who went to work & their messaging went into overdrive. I had a funny feeling so I sneaked home again & waited & sure enough a couple of that group came into the yard. Somehow they must have sensed I was there because suddenly they took off in a real hurry.
It's for the reason to prevent criminal networking by juveniles that social media & open phones should not be available to them. By all means let them call 000 or their guardians etc but don't let them have access willy nilly. We hear of bullying etc via social media, well, there's a very effective way to stop that instantly. Don't give them access !
Posted by individual, Friday, 1 February 2019 8:09:32 AM
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While one may empathize with the views of the author and indeed some of the outcomes described. One wonders if social media is reflecting symptomatic issues rather than being their primary cause?

Moreover, we know that prohibition merely drives whatever is prohibited elsewhere be it drugs abortion or alcohol. And almost as difficult s preventing kids from viewing porn on the internet.

Yes, we can and should limit the time kids spend in front of screens, and ought to get back to a time when the foundation stones of education were most notable by the absence of any form of electronic gadgetry in the classroom.

And we were forced to learn to use the inboard biological computer to download programs for later use.

The average human brain has I'm informed around fifty billion circuits and we don't fully develop our total cognitive abilities with a fully developed brain until our mid-twenties, and should have our screen time severely rationed until then So as to come to these electronic aids and memories with our's fully developed and functional.

Children need to spend more time socializing and playing team sport and participating in outdoor fun activities, not fastened behind some screen playing games that include acceptable levels of animated violence.

And they need to see phones as a useful communication tool not the entire scope of their de-humanized social life! Therefore their first phones should be a flip phone minus a screen so they are used to talk to someone or used for SOS purposes!
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Friday, 1 February 2019 9:54:36 AM
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The Government has assisted the regressive immoral academics who have managed to contribute greatly to fatherless families. The breakdown of the natural family and any sort of morality has had much more influence on suicide than social media.
Posted by runner, Friday, 1 February 2019 10:49:43 AM
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runner,
I agree entirely !
Posted by individual, Friday, 1 February 2019 12:41:54 PM
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The article title "Should social media be banned?" is merely a viewer-fodder, straw man.

No politicians (except those in North Korea) would dare pass legislation in Parliament to ban the whole "social media". Legislation would be immensely unpopular with voters and would also fail Freedom of Speech tests.

Also "Social Media" are vast, hard to define networks of the INTERNET. The whole Internet would need to be banned.

Furthermore, new communications technologies carrying "Social Media", like 5G mobile, would fail as Big End OF Town (political donation providing) businesses.
Posted by plantagenet, Friday, 1 February 2019 1:46:09 PM
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