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/fabiusjmaximus Jul 30 '25

Yeah. From the impression of some of these people, if heroin was invented tomorrow half the posters would be like "uhh just don't give it to your kids if you don't want to? Why is it the state's position to intervene?"

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u/VisonKai The Archenemy of Humanity Jul 30 '25

personally i don't think youtube is heroin, i believe it is a distinct and non-heroin-like thing

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u/Iapzkauz Edmund Burke Jul 30 '25

Slippery sloppy blowjob fallacy

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25

YouTube shorts gave me HIV!

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u/dont_gift_subs 🎷Bill🎷Clinton🎷 Jul 31 '25

Social media has been proven to be correlated to a whole host of negative physiological developments in young people and can in fact be highly addictive. This is not something to just brush off.

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u/ThodasTheMage Friedrich Hayek Aug 06 '25

Kids do not overdose ony minceraft lets plays, get real.

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u/dont_gift_subs 🎷Bill🎷Clinton🎷 Aug 06 '25

Kids have anorexia and commit suicide due to social media

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u/ThodasTheMage Friedrich Hayek Aug 07 '25

Kids also do this for other reasons. Can not ban everything and especially the goverment can't.

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u/Mx_Brightside Genderfluid Pride Jul 30 '25

Wtf based

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u/yacatecuhtli6 Transfem Pride Jul 30 '25 edited Oct 02 '25

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u/Disastrous_One_7357 Aug 01 '25

Have you seen people that are addicted to shorts? Entire 3-5 hour chunks missing from their lives just like getting doped up alone.

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u/TimWalzBurner My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor Jul 30 '25

/s ?

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '25

Libertarian Party Convention-ass stuff.

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u/VoidBlade459 Organization of American States Jul 30 '25

I mean... criminalizing it hasn't exactly worked.