• Salvo@aussie.zone
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    10 days ago

    It was never about protecting children. It was always about spying on citizens.

    And now the Albo is giving all our personal data to the Seppos, we are pretty much screwed.

    • Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      10 days ago

      I’m still convinced it’s largely a result of existing institutions being spooked after having lost control of the narrative on social media about Israel’s settler-colonial genocide.

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        I agree. The failure of the Israeli propaganda freaked governments out.

        Hence this dumb shit and its clones across the globe and the US purchase of TikTok.

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        Existing institutions are still controlling the narrative, just that people aren’t believing it.

        One good think about the GenBS bubble is that those people that aren’t complete drones improve their BS detectors.

        The problem are that there are still plenty of complete drones who still believe everything that is fed to them.

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        existing institutions know that the UN panel is a sham of unqualified people using lies

        and looks to me like you will believe anything if a person uses a marxist victimhood narrative

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    Completely expected that teens closer to 16 would be able to bypass it. Same thing happens with alcohol and people almost of age. But I expect younger children cannot bypass so easily so it’s still a net positive.

    IMO the more productive solution is to restrict cellphone use during school. They’ve recently done that in my area and both students and faculty have positive responses.

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      That’s not a solution to this problem, though. It’s definitely an important change for the quality of education, but if kids still have unlimited access to their phones between ~3 PM and whenever they fall asleep + unlimited access on Saturdays and Sundays then it’s not doing much to rewire their brains or keep them safe.

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        10 days ago

        If only they had adults that were guarding them in some legal capacity to avoid this behaviour or something

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          Having a law the adults can point to helps them enforce boundaries. That’s what the social media ban was meant to be about

  • No1@aussie.zone
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    10 days ago

    It’s just the first step.

    In a while, they’ll say people are getting around it, and will tighten it further.

    Repeat forever.