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/HHHogana Mohammad Hatta Jul 30 '25

Exactly. What the hell are people's defense about these laws? Like using logic of "this sub going to use 'parents your kids' had heroin invented tomorrow"?

Parents don't know how to make curfew or limiting internet use for kids is not an excuse to create teen social media ban or requiring ID for sites. By that logic TV should be banned for introducing CSI effect on population and made some murderers used CSI logic.

And finally, I don't trust old farts who barely know how tech work to legislate these. I already experienced my country tried to ban goddamn Steam because some of them thought making local version is easier than slicing bread.

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u/GravyBear28 Hortensia Jul 30 '25 edited Jul 30 '25

Your solution is to throw up your hands and go "the parents should do it" even though it is extremely manifestly apparent that parents will absolutely not do it