ONE well place good strike should resolve the issue!
For a âgood strikeâ they could use ATACMs.*
[Demonstrating how educational social media can be: I learnt this from the Ukraine thread]
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Yep. They arenât going to mess around. Wonât instigate a fight but will be the only one standing at the end.
Hopefully.
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I watched a Bill Murray movie not sure of the name where his Grandkid was being bullied at school by a much bigger kid. He show him how to bring his hand up under the nose and break it . Was very successful in the movie, think I will teach my Grandkids.
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In my experience bullies will respond to one thing - greater force.
It shouldnât be that way. I wished the mediation etc helped and maybe for some it does. But Iâm not risking it with my kids.
Iâm gen X and thankfully the internet wasnât a thing during high school. The online bullying deeply concerns me. I talk to the heff kids about the impacts words have and to come to me immediately if they are targeted. Not sure how I will handle it but I suspect it wonât be pleasant for the perpetrators.
I think itâs also important to not be passive bystanders.
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Best to stop bullies at the start of the career. Before they end up head of the Libs. Or even worse, POTUS.
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I had that weird strongbow phase too
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Feels a bit like bicycle helmets and this social media law.
I dont think they always think things through in Canberra.
The internet was cool until probably steve jobs and then mark zuckerberg.
Now itâs generally one big sewer.
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I am a boomer and there were no computers when I was at high school, or calculators, other than the logarithmic tables or a slide rule, if you were clever enough to know how to work one.
There were two major bullies when I was at high school, one became a policeman, the other sold shoes. Even back then, teachers did nothing, and parents really never got involved, so you learned to fight or run.
I seem to think if your child (or grandchild) are being bullied then you need to react and intervene in some way.
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unregulated social media is all pervasive . some adults canât cope with that , I would say most children canât possibly cope . I would rather see the government lean hard on the likes of Facebook tic tok ect to force them to make it safer and commit to this as a permanent thing , constant review and improvement rather than a ban. I think there will be lots of unintended consequences as a result of this. theyâve been told by many experts so they canât say we couldnât have know this would happen . itâs a nice gesture but not based in reality. itâs populist politics at its worst
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The two worst bullies at my high school became police. Thatâs not a good thing is my uneducated take.
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in my case, the bloke selling shoes became a really nice bloke and had a string of shoe shops before he died.
The cop, who I will not name, got promoted and then involved with some dubious people and departed Victoria Police to become a property developer. Still a bully I hear.
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I dont think Australia has the size of market for any of the big players to listen to gov calls to change their product on its own.
Deeming it a mature product and requiring an age limit is one way to do something around it.
If it catches on in enough markets the likes if facebook/instagram and x etc will make a family rated product.
It will become its own market that advertisers will want to target is why.
If the government was consistent they would be after gambling advertising on traditional media as well to make it suitable for all ages too.
Its not OK to jam gambling ads down peoples throats. Especially kids.
And its ridiculous you canât even pay to not have them(kayo/fox)
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And ive seen worse than whats in this article.
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There was a point in the afl site when every single video had a gambling ad as the lead in. Disgusting.
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I get the sentiment and it makes for a great slow clap moment in an 80s movie but the reality is that many bullies will simply physically destroy the majority of the kids they bully and a more recent issue is gangs of kids doing the bullying. One of the gangs at my sonâs previous school was recently involved in a serious assault involving knives. The reality is very few kids would have any chance standing up to these gangs and violence will only lead to more violence.
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$700 for a two-bedder in my neighbourhood would be cheap. The situation is rapidly spiralling out of control. Youâd think that a PM who continually reminds us all of how hard he had it growing up would be on the front foot with this, but he has been disappointing again. I really feel for those trying to rent in Sydney.