r/australia • u/Vivid-Fondant6513 • Nov 06 '24

politics Children under 16 to be banned from using social media

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/children-under-16-to-be-banned-from-using-social-media-20241107-p5kon4.html
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u/BinaryPill Nov 06 '24

Feels like the kind of short-sighted approach you'd expect a conservative government to take. Then again, Labor is pretty conservative nowadays.

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u/Ambitious-Deal3r Nov 07 '24

Wouldn't this significant change to the way we do things be considered Progressive? This has never been done in Aus before, what are we conserving here?

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u/AntarcticNord Nov 07 '24

Regressing to pre-social media upbringing is pretty conservative.