Utopia
A survey by YouGov shows that 77% of Australians are in favour of the social media ban for people that are less than 16 years old, aka kids.
Mind you, that’s the same population that when surveyed, 81% of them reported they can’t afford to have a midlife crisis.
Oddly enough, 23% of the population is under 16, they love social media, and they can’t vote.
Nothing I read tells me why the gubment is doing this. I think they just assume we agree with them that social media is deadly for kids.
But so are roads and we haven’t thought to ban kids from crossing them. Yet.
They did say this: “The social media ban is designed to protect children and young people from online harms and the negative impact social media is having on their well-being.”
What do they mean?
[Scratching, scratching, more internet searching]
Screen time is melting their brains: this ban will simply accelerate that problem by making kids less social and more inclined to disappear into game world.
Bullying: It looks like the kids are being bullied by the gubment here – they’re stealing something of value from the kids who have no opportunity for recourse.
The funniest part is that it’ll never work. Within 24 hours the kids will migrate onto some dark web social site, which will be completely unregulated and beyond the ken of the bureaucrats.
Their solution, as ever, will have exactly the opposite effect to that intended.
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