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Collective Shout, a small but vocal lobby group, has long called for a mandatory internet filter that would prevent access to adult content for everyone in Australia. Its director, Melinda Tankard Reist, was recently appointed to the stakeholder advisory board for the government’s age assurance technology trial before the under-16s social media ban comes into effect in Australia in December.

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Feels like we're going back to the 90s/00s "Christian parents against video games" moral panic era. But this time, they're being appeased more heavily.

I despise conservatism. It destroys everything it touches.

[-] TheTurner@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 week ago

It's another Satanic Panic.

[-] Damage@feddit.it 15 points 1 week ago

And there's way fewer Christians nowadays

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 7 points 1 week ago
[-] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 1 week ago

It's amazing how they have a book that tells them to love everybody and somehow they've taken that, and turned it into oppress everybody.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 1 week ago

Just as long as they get rid of dungeons and dragons. Everyone knows that's the real danger in our society.

[-] StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Pathfinder is clearly the answer

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