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Australia is the first nation to ban social media for under-16s. (globalvoices.org)

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Landmark legislation sees the Australian government committed to the novel step of child protection by banning social media for under sixteens.

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[–] Affidavit@lemm.ee 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Absolute stupidity and a waste of taxpayers' money spending so much time on this nonsense.

These incompetent morons are pretty much guaranteeing that they will lose the next election. In the middle of a housing and inflation crisis this is what these fuckheads decided was important.

I loathe the opposition, but it's hard to defend the sheer incompetence the Labor Party has displayed their entire term.

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 14 hours ago

With great sadness I have to agree with you.

It's just one shit show after another. Voice to parliament, live export ban, and now this. Meanwhile Australians are being ground into the dust by price gouging corporations and interest rate hikes.

That said I am in support of this legislation, but it's just not enough.