I don’t agree with him on this. No way it will work and it’s just going to be a complete waste of time
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Can anyone actually provide a plausible explanation as to how they intend to implement this?
It feels like every few years there is some evil that’s ruining kids minds. Skinny models, reality tv, sugar, “screen time”, social media etc.
The solution isn’t banning. It’s education. Education for parents on how to educate their own kids around what social media is and how it can harm them, and how to fetter your child’s usage of social media and the internet in general.
I like the concept of restricting it but really there’s no way of doing it. Therefore it’s time and money wasted.
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There’s a broader conversation here to be had about the government being the one that decides what is socially acceptable and what isn’t. Because we’re talking about actual censorship and what the public is willing to accept, let alone deeper discussions about the inevitable overreach
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How do you feel about moderating content in films and TV, on an age restricted basis including viewing times, in regard to violence, ■■■■■■■■■■■ and gambling?
Nothing is preventing a child from viewing that content.
I don’t know what you mean by moderating. I think stuff like age advisory recommendations are fine, but the usher isnt stopping 14 year olds going into ma15+ movies is he
Get with the times, people don’t go to the movies anymore anyway
its such a laughably stupid idea before you even get into implementation
there is fk all in this world to do for teenagers that doesn’t cost them money that, in most cases, they do not have
and so now the plan is to restrict them from a (close to) free source of entertainment and time consumption
with the end goal being… a very large amount of bored and frustrated young people?
gee whillikers batman, wonder what will happen
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It really comes off as a weird attempt to win the boomers over.
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saw it put perfectly on twitter - “governing for sunrise”
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Don’t you dare besmirch sunrise and the great name of Matt shirvington.
Aus government gets X and all the other social media channels to implement some kind of geo lock to authenticate and verify through whatever the age identifying system is.
All you will need is a VPN to access them in other countries.
They could put in place some kind of fine of detected, but that would be very stupid.
How do you force them to do that?
All social media companies need to comply with the laws in the countries which they operate.
What are the consequences if they don’t?
I think it will help, simply being able to say no you can’t have that because it’s illegal will make it easier to refuse your kids requests for a year or two at least.
So now you’ve got international companies processing the data of children and teenagers which I’m sure won’t go catastrophically wrong.
That’ll mean you have you amend the privacy Act, and the data protection Act. And probably a whole host of other bills related to it
This entire plan is a furphy
They will get geo blocked as per Brazil.
Brazil geo blocked X, but using a VPN and Satelite services such as Starlink have circumvented the effectiveness of the bans.
Like p0rnography… right?
How do you think that would go down with the Australian public?
Political suicide.