Now if only they banned it for those 16 and over too

We're not gonna have a world that's safe for our children, as long as we can't trust our government to actually be monitoring it for thugs who want to harm our children.

The only way possible to create such a government is if you get to elect your neighbors in the positions to represent you, someone you actually know, and you get to voice your demands to them.

Until we get to that point, we're left on our own to keep our children safe. If you're fortunate you might have your own community helping you out and I hope if you're a parent that you do.

I also don't really understand how is a blanket ban on the internet suppose to achieve anything? Having no internet didn't stop the kids from growing up into Nazis

Maybe it’s different in Australia with it being a global north country but I wouldn’t be against this in my country with how all those apps are US propaganda machines and just churn out Pro-US right-wingers.

Kick, Instagram, Facebook, and Reddit can especially go to hell. No marginalized kid is going to Kick and coming out a better person.

We lack the infrastructure to host our own social media so the best we would be able to do is ban the foreign social media and build up our traditional media. We’re a very social country and most of the people living on those apps are wealthier shut-ins.

I would be fine with this ban if it were strictly limited to FB, X, Instagram and Tiktok (of the ones that I have some actual familiarity with), but alas.

i do vaguely feel it's a good idea tbh (like aside from not being able to commiserate if you are in the middle of nowhere and a minority)

Good. Social media is bad.

E: the only reasonable way to be mad about this is because it requires a draconian overreaching “papers please, mate” ass id system that removes any chance of being on the internet anonymously. Such a system is only possible in one of the countries that doesn’t even have the thin veneer of civil rights like the good ol’ us-of-a does.

It’s not bad that fewer people will have access to social media. It’s good that fewer people will have access to social media. It’s bad that the incompetent, alcoholic Australians decided to do so by weaponizing their British common laws lack of a fourth amendment but when you’re a nation of sheep fuckers suffering from fetal alcohol syndrome and sun poisoning every problem looks like a nail.