Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube

a year ago by schnurrito to c/australia

Last fall, heavily influenced by Jonathan Haidt’s extremely problematic book, Australia announced that it was banning social media for everyone under the age of 16. This was already a horrifically …
DirigibleProtein 5 points a year ago

When laws are this obviously disconnected from technological and social reality, it signals that the people making them either don’t understand what they’re regulating or don’t care about whether their policies actually work. It’s difficult to see how that benefits anyone at all.

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source_of_truth 1 point a year ago

Because, of course, it's not about children and never was.

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