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Experiments in futility: Australia’s teenage social media ban approaches : Comments
By Binoy Kampmark, published 8/12/2025As Australia moves to ban under-16s from major social platforms, teens, regulators and civil libertarians collide in a brewing legal and political battle over digital freedom.
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Albanese Labor has set new standards of lying, about immigration, housing, energy, and social cohesion. He has form, in terms of his malignant "misinformation" bill. Of course he doesn't want young people looking at social media.
Posted by Steve S, Monday, 8 December 2025 8:14:59 AM
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It's obvious that no pragmatists were invited to the forming of this policy. A thirteen year old is now smarter than the average Woke politician. sadly though, once in school they get dumbed-down so as not to become a threat to the ruling incompetents.
If Government were to use integrity, sense & responsibility regarding the young, they'd focus on bringing teachers up to scratch instead of stifling the young. Once a young person is close to adulthood without having had any education in discipline then their only avenue to becoming a responsible citizen is gone. They get the blame, not those who barred them from becoming responsible by barring their parents from instilling discipline. In Australia One Nation is literally our last hope. That bunch of useless intellectuals on the Woke side must be stopped from causing yet more social & economic & environmental harm. Posted by Indyvidual, Monday, 8 December 2025 10:02:10 AM
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If kids were taught to reason instead of being indoctrinated, the idea of them seeing other perspectives on the internet wouldn't terrify the likes of cult leader Albo. A MAD bill via the back door. ID card next on the excuse of age verification.
Posted by Fester, Monday, 8 December 2025 10:16:02 AM
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Jewish kids of all ages are forced to drink a glass of wine every Friday evening as part of the Sabbath sacrament ritual... plus whole 4 glasses full of wine during Passover eve's festive meal.
As a result, when they grow they get to hate that "yucky religious stuff" and never become alcoholic. Here we have the opposite: When forbidden, children imagine that there is something great and wonderful in social-media, then they will be ensnared like moth to a flame by that harmful practice the very moment they turn 16. Perhaps that's exactly what government seeks - to turn all adults into alcoholics... Posted by Yuyutsu, Monday, 8 December 2025 11:59:32 AM
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"If kids were taught to reason instead of being indoctrinated, the idea of them seeing other perspectives on the internet wouldn't terrify the likes of cult leader Albo."
It sure terrifies the hell out of Jewish leaders whose kids were taught that the big powerful NAZI's were wrong for attacking the weak and vulnerable Jews with the holocaust, and now see big powerful Israel attacking weak and vulnerable Palestinians, and turn away from supporting Israel because of it. Posted by Armchair Critic, Tuesday, 9 December 2025 3:13:36 AM
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Totally misplaced comparison, Armchair Critic:
Jewish people do not need to listen to such "Jewish leaders" if they don't want to, they may completely ignore their laws, they may even stop being Jewish whenever they like. Not so with Albo: anyone ignoring him and his laws goes to jail. Posted by Yuyutsu, Tuesday, 9 December 2025 5:05:20 AM
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Hi AC,
No one can say what ideas and individual will form, but isn't it better to teach people to reason and then form their own ideas? Albo's plan seems more about keeping people from what are perceived as bad ideas. You're a good example of someone forming his own views via unrestricted access to information. That is how it should be. Posted by Fester, Tuesday, 9 December 2025 7:02:32 AM
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Hi Yuyutsu,
They said the problem is Tik Tok and X not what they're doing that is the cause of the criticism. In their mind what they're doing is perfectly fine they just don't like their Jewish kids seeing the atrocities the IDF do for themselves. I know you don't watch youtube, but if you did you'd see for yourself. First video is Netanyahu saying Tik Tik and X is the problem, so they just had Jew Larry Ellison buy Tik Tok so they could censor atrocities in Gaza because they are losing support of Jewish and evangelical youth. http://www.youtube.com/shorts/gPKw3cM3DUI http://youtu.be/QYO2ZsQu0H8?t=556 It always seems to be blame with them Blame the Palestinians, blame Tik Tok Blame the ICC, blame anti-semites... Never what they do. Let's talk about Israels use of the word 'terrorist organisation' Israel criminalized group following report of raped Palestinian child https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/israel-criminalized-group-following-report-raped-palestinian-child "Israel designated a human rights group as a terrorist organization shortly after the US State Department inquired about a report detailing the rape of a Palestinian child by Israeli prison authorities." So this kid gets raped, and the Palestinian child protection agency try to expose it, the they gets raided and labelled a terrorist organisation. Pretty liberal use of the term right? That's the equivalent of naming the Daniel Morcombe Foundation terrorists... What about 'anyone that criticises Israel for actions in Gaza is labelled an Anti-Semite'. So they may as well throw both of those terms 'Terrorist organisation' and 'anti-semite' in the bin, because they carry little weight given the above examples Posted by Armchair Critic, Wednesday, 10 December 2025 9:12:47 AM
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Israeli Prison guards are accused of rape, Israel attacks the Minister who said it, and hundreds of Jews turn up to demand the release of the rapists, and proclaim that Jews have a right to rape them. The ICC tries to call out Israels genocide, Israel quiety makes threats against the ICC tells them they will destroy them. Francesca Albanese was the most highly publicised person who called out Israels genocide, the U.S. sanctioned her, shut all her bank accounts down, not able to open new ones. Doesn't matter if you really were raping, attack the minister who exposed it, defend the raping, defend the perpetrators and lablen the child protection agency terrorists. Doesn't matter if the ICC lawyer make an fair and unbiased assessment based on merit, you have to attack her and set an example that no criticism goes unpunished. I look at Jewish publications, and it's clear Jews want to identify and vilify anyone that criticises them or threatens their power, (even their own, that call our rapists) just like the NAZI parliament protest that was OK'd by police themselves beforehand, but politicians were embarrassed, Jews were angered so they exposed the bloke, and his girlfriend (make it person) and got him deported, just for saying 'End the Israel Lobby' Identify and vilify http://thejewishindependent.com.au/loopholes-in-victorian-protest-bill Harassed the military lawyer so badly she attempted suicide https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/1/why-has-the-israeli-armys-top-lawyer-resigned-after-leaking-rape-evidence http://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-idf-legal-chief-hospitalized-police-ask-court-to-apply-house-arrest-conditions/ And finally just want to say it seems to me large majority of Jews just can't seem to comprehend the legitimate non-Jew criticism factor. ...Like do Jews ever wonder what a non-Jewish people think about this kind of bs? Seems most just think everyone else is the problem, but never what they're doing themselves. Sometimes, people can't see the bigger picture, they can only see things one way, and truly believe others are the problem. They just can't see or grasp that the real problem for the whole entire mess is them, themselves. And that they are the cause, the architect of their whole entire own mess themselves, no matter how much they tell themselves otherwise. Posted by Armchair Critic, Wednesday, 10 December 2025 9:32:36 AM
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Articles a few months old now, but interesting nonetheless
Australia Registers New Industry Codes for Online Safety, Expanding Age Assurance Requirements http://idtechwire.com/australia-registers-new-industry-codes-for-online-safety-expanding-age-assurance-requirements/ Posted by Armchair Critic, Wednesday, 10 December 2025 9:33:49 AM
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Dear Critic,
I already noted in my previous post that mentioning Jews and Israel is irrelevant to this topic. Yet you insist on remaining off-topic. I don't know nor care what Netanyahu is saying: if he said that the sky is yellow then I would say that the sky is blue and if he said that the sky was blue then I also would say that the sky is blue. If all Israelis said that social-media is bad then I would say that social-media is bad and if they all said that social-media is good then I also would say that social-media is bad. Some people in this forum never stop thinking about England, yet you are the most loyal Israeli I ever met, for no matter the topic of conversation, you never stop thinking about Israel! Posted by Yuyutsu, Wednesday, 10 December 2025 11:17:02 AM
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