Comment on Australia’s Social Media Ban Was Pushed By Ad Agency Focused On Gambling Ads It Didn’t Want Banned

• 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.

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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      • No1@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You have opened my eyes to some important issues I had not considered before.

        This law actually hurts parents who have actively looked out for their kids. They’ve been nurturing them, showing them the bad things that are on social media. Teaching them about critical thinking, how to spot bias. How to be aware of algorithms leading you down a path.

        Is this the new age prohibition? We all know how that went.

        But instead of banning it for everyone, we ban it for those who are youngest, most susceptible, and most unaware of the dangers? Does this put those children who would have been mentored and instructed by good parents and guided over years and throw them to the wolves?

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      • fizzle@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Parental controls on most devices will allow you to monitor and regulate your kid’s youtube usage, and block alternative platforms.

        Having to provide ID to access services isn’t ideal, but in the context of everything else people provide to social media it doesn’t seem very significant to me?

        Suggesting that this is some kind of “betrayal” is overly dramatic, sorry.

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    • 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”.

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