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Fencing the ocean: Australia’s social media safety bill : Comments

By Binoy Kampmark, published 25/11/2024

While this proposed legislation will prove ineffectual in achieving its intended purpose – here, protecting the prelapsarian state of childhood from ruin at the hands of wicked digital platforms – it will also leave the apparatus of hefty regulation.

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A good summary of Australia's new communism.

But, I think that that under-16s are much smarter than the Alboists, and they will get around it; just like that have with the mobile phone ban in schools.
Posted by ttbn, Monday, 25 November 2024 8:03:01 AM
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under-16s are much smarter than the Alboists,
ttbn,
Well, they do have the advantage of evidence which the Albonista had to find out the hard way !
The question is are they actually smarter & won't make the mistake of voting Labor again or do they just happen to witness the failures & still vote Labor like so many others before them ?
Posted by Indyvidual, Monday, 25 November 2024 9:00:38 AM
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Indyvidual

The Left seems to thing that they've got the kids, which is why they want to lower the voting age to 16 - when it really should be raised to 25, the age when the brain is fully developed.

But, I've been reading several different independent claims that young people are moving away from the woke left. We shall see at next year's election, which is now being talked of as the death knell of Albanese’s new communists.
Posted by ttbn, Monday, 25 November 2024 9:52:21 AM
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It seems the only ones against the online ban for young kids are the social media chiefs. It sounds like a good move instead of no rules at all, and takes the weight of parents who enforce their own rules.
An age limit should be universal.
Posted by doog, Monday, 25 November 2024 11:36:14 AM
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doog

Discussions clearly indicate that “social mediation chiefs” are not the “only ones against the online ban”. Thousands of kids, for a start, are against it. Oodles of child psychologists think it's a bad idea. Even people, like me, who are not fans of the little buggers are against it. Many politicians are against it. The Human Rights Commission has serious doubts about it. That's right: it is a human rights issue.

This is just a blatant grab for control.

And what's this taking the weight off parents? The government is interfering with parental rights and responsibilities to raise their own children: a typical ploy of totalitarianism, coming between parents and their kids. Are you a parent? Have you asked parents if they like someone else raising their kids?

The “this is for the parents” hogwash from Albanese is just one of his many lies; it's all about getting control of people while they are young, which also suits some in the Coalition, who are up to their ears in censorship and control.

What we have is just another terrible idea from a terrible government.
Posted by ttbn, Monday, 25 November 2024 1:52:30 PM
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Article 1 – A child means every human being below the age of eighteen.

Article 18 – Parents have a responsibility for bringing up their child and should always consider what is best.

Government:
Article 36 – Children must be protected from all forms of activities that can harm their development.
Posted by doog, Monday, 25 November 2024 6:09:33 PM
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