Australia's social media ban has failed
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Australia's social media ban has failed
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Re: Australia's social media ban has failed
#2Ban the hardware, not the software.
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#3I wish I can promote this to the whole internet. this is not the way to control the internet :)
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#4The fact that they'll ban kids from accessing every social media except Reddit tells you everything you need to know about the real motives behind this "ban".
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#5Of course it is going to fail especially if the social media networks are incentivized to make sure that it fails. The penalties should have been set at a per user basis.
Re: Australia's social media ban has failed
#6Ban the hardware, not the software.
Agree but the parents want the hardware for the kids' safety, and it has to be a smartphone specifically so the parents can GPS track them and to do facetime calls to prove they're OK...
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#7The fact that they'll ban kids from accessing every social media except Reddit tells you everything you need to know about the real motives behind this "ban".
I'm not on social media. But reddit seems slightly more intelligent than tiktok, instagram, X. What's the real motive then, according to you?
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#8I wish I can promote this to the whole internet. this is not the way to control the internet :)
Anecdotally, all the parents I know and have discussed this with are desperate for this to work.
How it should work I'm unsure in the big scheme of it, but we limit access to various things until age 18 here in Australia, and I think this is one long term battle that I believe the tech sector will lose.
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#9The whole idea of excluding teenagers from social interactions because you can't police how shit people are is absurd.
Re: Australia's social media ban has failed
#10Ban the hardware, not the software.
So, are you suggesting that the legal use of smartphones should be banned for anyone under the age of 18? What kind of society do you want to live in?