"Get off your phones and meet people your age in real life!" "Wait not like that!"

Feels like kids can't win these days.

Just gotta keep making the world as hostile as possible to teenagers.

Because the school to prison pipeline can only do so much

"Why aren't the kids going outside anymore?" "Why are there kids outside?!"

Let teens exist in public spaces for fuck's sake.

“We really recognise the tremendous opportunity that ebikes can offer for getting anyone, including younger people, from A to B, independently,” McLean said. “[It] is a really, really positive thing that connects them to education, to work, to social things and communities as well.

“There’s lots of benefits that go along with them, but when we have really high powered ebikes and people driving them dangerously and without helmets, then they certainly pose a significant risk.”

Seems like a pretty balanced take honestly.

I mean banning teens seems a pretty good policy.

Australia, a prison state created for inmates, and perpetuated as such by their descendants. As a foreigner looking in, I think that Aussies would be best served by ditching the colonial prison mindset. You and the kids are allowed to have fun, if you ignore the specter of the Crown that created your nation.

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Seems like a pretty big logical leep to link the two things.

I dunno, can't parents just keep their kids in a box till they're 18 and can become productive, compliant wage slaves, like everyone else.

/s

Let me rephrase: Australians concerned about children on vehicles that can go 25mph with no requirement for a license or training.

all yall folk running hamburger software: 25kph is around 15mph and change. 4 minute miles. Really fast sprints.

Just wait until all those teen grow up and figure out that old farts on social media are responsible.

I met one of these teens on a train he showed me a few news clips he was in with like 100 other teens on ebikes and scooters lol

Nothing to do with social media, all to do with at what point and electric bicycle becomes an electric motorcycle and the lack of laws and regulations keeping up with it. It used to be easy if the thing was making a noise, due to petrol engine, it's a motorbike. It's happening in every country and it feels like Chinese manufacturers are making all the money whilst the rest of the world catches up.

In my community a couple of years ago some middle aged guy assaulted a teen who was riding his Surron (non peddle ebike/motorcycle) in the park. Was he speeding? Probably, but that doesn't excuse what that twat did. For the most part kids on these types of bikes aren't the problem.

Our real problem has been pre teens on 110cc dirt bikes. They ride in groups and have been literally terrorizing people. I talked to one lady who had to put her horse down when they scared it and caused it to break a leg. Then they laughed at her and rode off. The police can't catch them, though they've tried, but not that hard since they could actually do some simple detective work if they wanted to

The article has nothing to do with social media, the only mention of it is how adults put a comment on FB about antisocial behaviour of ebike riders. And clearly the clip of ripping up a golf course is antisocial. So actually the issue is, like in the UK, illegal emotorbikes that people should be prosecuted for.

I hope Australian kids annoy adults enough that this moral panic about social media dies from adults just giving up because kids resort to even more annoying behavior, that would be poetic justice.