The ban is not good though, any means of enforcing it completely undermines the concepts of online privacy and an open internet.
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fizzle@quokk.au 3 days ago
Oh please. Just because some assholes decided that the ban might be tangentially good for their business does not mean that the ban is not good.
This is exactly the false sense of security many ban critics warned about. Politicians and parents now think kids are magically “safe,” even though kids are trivially bypassing the ban. Meanwhile, the adults who might have educated those kids about online gambling risks—a problem that heavily targets teenage boys—now assume the government has handled it. Gambling ads stay up, kids stay online, and everyone pretends the problem is solved.
This assertion is completely unsupported. If this then that then that then that.
“Oh we couldn’t possibly do anything about the problems caused by social media because gambling ads are also a whole other problem which has not been addressed”.
Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
fizzle@quokk.au 3 days ago
I couldn’t care less.
The war for an open internet and online privacy has been lost a long time ago.
Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. This is an imperfect solution to a huge problem, and if it mitigates the impact on the kids of today and tomorrow then so be it.
Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
I’m not one to let perfect be the enemy of the good, but I’ll always be an enemy to evil, which this ban clearly is.
This sort of thing is so clearly motivated by the frustration of the powers that be over having lost control of the narrative over the genocide in Gaza, and a bunch of cantankerous cretins from the Cretaceous who can’t cope coexisting with kids in their communities are all too happy to sacrifice basic civil liberties over it for some reason.This is so fucking stupid.
shads@lemy.lol 3 days ago
Not to mention it is counter productive in a number of ways. I have lost the ability to monitor my kids YouTube usage, the kids are just going to move to alternate platforms, and I am amongst the cohort of sensible Australians who will refuse to use social media before I provide some dodgy AI company my ID, it’s going to be a lot harder to convince my kids to do the same once all their friends and peers start ratcheting up the conformity pressure after they turn 16. This whole thing isn’t misguided, it’s a betrayal of the majority of Australians who are too dumb to realise what they are giving away to access these services.
fizzle@quokk.au 3 days ago
Sorry chief this is just plain nutty.
I cant really respond to that.
By all means continue believing that wanting to reduce the impact of corporate profiteering on children is “evil”.
Salvo@aussie.zone 3 days ago
But everyone with half a brain will acknowledge that it was very poorly implemented.
I reckon the Gambling Ads should still be banned.
Children are still hurt when mummy and daddy donate their entire paycheck to the Lloyd Williams retirement fund.
fizzle@quokk.au 3 days ago
The implementation has been complained about ad nauseum. No need to re-hash the tired old arguments here. In 10 years time we’ll see how it’s worked out.
Of course gambling ads should be banned, but that’s not a reason not to ban social for kids.