Insane …
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It was a major promise of the government and is still proudly displayed on their website.
From online polling done when the laws were brought in:
"YouGov survey found that 77% of Australians back the under-16 social media ban.
Furthermore, 75% of Australians also indicated support for government's plan to introduce a “digital duty of care”, that would hold social media companies accountable for proactively protecting users from harmful online content.”
I’m always super skeptical of those polls. Sometimes they are written in such a way as to get the response you desire.
I can’t say I trust polls either but the response from people I talked to seemed to match up pretty well with that.
The average person really does not care about privacy and sees anything to “protect the kids” as unquestionably good.