You should read “Anxious Generation” before you pass “freedom” judgements on this. This is definitely a step in the right direction.
Australian government attacks their own children. The worlds worst nanny state is at it again. How about letting parents decide these things?
https://www.reuters.com/technology/australia-passes-social-media-ban-children-under-16-2024-11-28/
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May be a government overstep, but it’s a start to the conversation. It’s a battle I see parents have all the time, wanting to do the right thing, but now they have a backing to it?
I'm not going to read anything. This harms me and I could care less about children.
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It’s never about the kids. This is a step towards total KYC on the web. This way everyone knows they can’t openly criticize their government or woke ideology or they may just disappear.
No sane person should support this.
Or even unwoke policy, "protect the children" is just as popular an excuse of far right governments.
Yep, a great excuse.
Totally correct.
If I lacked empathy, I would even enjoy the prospect of a sudden change in political power in places like Australia, from the current "consensus" to a far right faction, just for the sake of letting them feel the consequences of the system they're building, in the hands of the people they don't like.
To a certain extent that's what's happening in the US with the current regime, which is the left-sided mirror image of what the Evangelical nuts tried to institute in the period between Reagan and Dubya.