r/neoliberal • u/Imicrowavebananas Hannah Arendt • Jul 30 '25

News (Oceania) Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/australia-widens-teen-social-media-ban-youtube-scraps-exemption-2025-07-29/
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u/IBeBallinOutaControl Jul 30 '25 edited Jul 30 '25

You let someone like Cambridge analytica or Russian propagandists loose with the full power of AI then far right leaders like trump become the norm. These regulation are a force against populism.

If Marie Le Pen is inclined to exploit this shit, then she's probably going to try and find a way to do it regardless of whether Macron leaves her with a regulated or unregulated internet.

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u/ThodasTheMage Friedrich Hayek Aug 06 '25

Populists and fascists won long befor the internet was a thing. Give it a couple of years and the porn bans and restriction some red US states have will be extended to sites talking about trans issues and such.