Advocacy group Children and Young People with Disability Australia (CYDA) says social media and the internet is “often a lifeline for young people with disability, providing one of the few truly accessible ways to build connections and find community”.

In a submission to the Senate inquiry around the laws, CYDA said social media was: “a place where young people can choose how they want to represent themselves and their disability and learn from others going through similar things”.

“It provides an avenue to experiment and find new opportunities and can help lessen the sting of loneliness,” the submission said. “Cutting off that access ignores the lived reality of thousands and risks isolating disabled youth from their peer networks and broader society.”

You sure about that buddy? Confident enough to maim the fragile social networks that young people living in hostile environments in favor of another solution you haven’t even come up with yet?

Leave this place if this is how you see social media, by your own viewpoint digital communities aren’t good for people so why are you here?