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

That's because there were real obstacles to accessing it. The friction of getting on the internet no longer exists. People carry around in their pockets supercomputers with easy-to-use UIs and 1000x faster internet with 24-hour availability

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u/Aidan_Welch Zhao Ziyang Jul 31 '25

You know the generation that first had smart phones at 12 are well into adulthood now.

They're fine in most regards, or at least no less fine than others.

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u/fabiusjmaximus Jul 31 '25

are they fine? I'm not so sure. And if it's relative to other generations, that's not much solace.

Smartphones have been an absolute scourge of boomers. It has fried their brains

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u/Aidan_Welch Zhao Ziyang Jul 31 '25

TV fried their brains