Why is Australia trying to ban social media for children? | The Take

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We do not consent. As an Australian Citizen we know this is the push for a Digital ID implementation using our children as a Trojan Horse. Just NO! We have 1 day to make submissions to Parliament. They are trying to push this through in 1 week. It's disgusting. There is not a huge movement of normal Australian parents who are opposing it. It is all Government spin.

This is problematic in many ways. My 5 and 7 year olds use YouTube accounts that I setup and have kid controls. So does this ban mean that there won’t be kid controls? I always check what my kids watch on YouTube and am always impressed about the learning material. I definitely would not stop my children watching YouTube on my account because of this law. I don’t mind a ban on the socials but YouTube should be excluded. It’s replaced television in our house

Like that brat who goes around telling people nuclear energy is a viable option for Australia—where are kids getting these crazy ideas? Obviously, social media. Close it down!

"Acting on parental anxiety" or acting on the increasing levels of teenager suicide rates, body image issues, and cyberbullying?
The thing is, if your kids peers use social media, you can't isolate your kid. If the ban is for all under-16s, then we can protect children from harms that can affect their developing brains that haven't even been comprehensively studied yet.
"Radical" was to make social media available to us all before any studies on possible harms were developed.

In australia criminalisation starts at 10 years old but you can't dobsocial media until 16.
Anyone realises the absurdity of these ppl?

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They are trying to Sneak in a law called "The Miss infornmation bill" and hide it behind the Social media ban bill. They actuslly want to dictate what we see using the Miss infornmation bill.

Parents need to be parents. Australian government has a bad track record with intervening in parent / child relations, will never trust them again with "kids best interest"

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There no issue as to banning children from digital social media platforms – The Australian professor doesn't represent our nation in his views. – the government would have made extensive studies to reach this conclusion. Even if one child''s life is saved or one person mental health is preserved its worth banning social media at a young age. People are more important than a social media platform, Australia sets its own standard in many area's like food, transport safety and medical healthcare etc – we attempt to have the highest strictest standards in the world not the one most profitable.

This is a matter between parents and kids. Lack of parenting skills is more of an issue to tackle. The government has no role to get involved in this. The most important question is how would you enforce it to kids. They always have ways to bypass the system for example using VPN and the government has no way to enforce it. I do not believe banning will solve the problem but good parental skills will.

Yea right. Promote lgbtq openly and try to ban social media. Why not ban this pride movement, parents actually don't want that.

Just another way to harvest our data, stolen for profit in a fake capitalist system. Expose algorithms to protect children

Government have got as much chance of stopping social media usage as they have in stopping the next flood, or cyclone.

The language of the heading is a misdirection for views. This proposed law is not a blanket ban on children and social media, as it is being portrayed. Those platforms which have refused repeated directions to reach requisite safety standards, to provide parental controls, for example, have been given a year to do so. If they fail to make changes, then they will not be able to have child accounts, i.e. under 16s. If they meet the requisite safety standards, they will not be included in the ban.
Teach in a school and see how many parents have allowed (or are ignorant of) their under 13-y-os with social media accounts. We don't go a single week without a different parent complaining to the school that their child is being bullied on social media by another child, and demand the school do something about it. The school has no authority over a child's actions outside school, and no training in cyber forensics to untangle compex bullying and retaliatory situations.

The man on this video is either out of touch with schools, or deliberately underplaying the seriousness and dangers that children can face daily. The comments are horrific and often from a group, generally saying "We hate you. We hope you d*e,, why don't you go k**l yourself." I don't want to go to another child's funeral after they have felt they had no option but to do that.
They didn't really discuss the issues of sexting, nor mention the options for predators to gaslight. And we've had those situations too for vulnerable 13+-y-o children.

The fact that so many adults here are swallowing the social media misdirection of the issue is proof in itself that there is a need for this Bill. tAs a society we need to counter the socail media disinformation to which children are subjected far to early in their development of critical thinking and discernment. If someone was speaking to children face to face the way that happens online, we'd be calling the police. The problem is that so much danger to children from social media is hidden, and parents can find out long after the damage is done.

Thank you so many people have lost their lives

What if they grow up unaccustomed to social media?? What follows next is definitely addiction. Instead of just permanently banning social media just because they're thought of spreading misinformation, why not educate them when they are still young?? Plus,, people must socialize… It's part of life and nothing can replace it

People lost their 'off switches' 🤣

Why is Australia trying to ban social media for children?

1. To brainwash the next generation into the "acceptable" narrative

2. To create more people dependent on government

3. To cement their position in our private lives

4. To expand their power even further

Take your pick
(All of the above)

I just heard the story why is Australia banning social media for children now. That's sad bullies pushed a girl who wished other people to stop bullying others via the social media into suicide just because of her wish. That's unfair to her that the bullies who were responsible for this should be punished for. Good on you mates for the new rule for children with social media.

This is why I don't have any sort of social media myself, because others are irresponsible about what they speak their minds of online these days. Which they should keep to themselves if it's nothing good about someone else. Why can't we all just get along, people? Sheesh..

When I heard about this ban, I thought on the face of it that it was the silliest nanny state rubbish I had heard in a while. But then I thought it would be a wonderful way to connect citizens to their devices for monitoring. A bit dystopian.

Children are already banned. Most social media requires, at the very least, an age of 13, 16 or 18. 13 is already too young for children on social media. All medical evidence shows screentime, including the TV, has similar affects on children's brains as abusing drugs. However, it's being used as a restriction on all people. Parents need to be parents not pass it off to the government. Has no-one learned from events of the last century?

I see points on both sides. In China for example there no nuance or worry about your kid's feelings, Twitter. Facebook and TikTok are banned. Age verification is common on lots of sites already, you do it once, not every time you log in. And I get that under most under 17's do not have ID, but not even a student ID? Sure let kids do whatever they want, like 10 year old schoolkid on the bus the other day that wanted to challenge me to a fight

It's ironic that a political leader, who used his own social media forces to create the anxiety in parents, now is trying to ban social media from children under 16 ostensibly to "protect" them from "bad media", which of course he will define, and you can be certain that will include criticism of his government…folks, really? Have you not learned about this tactic through history especially by authoritarian regimes of which Australia has become…if they cannot control the minds of parents, who seem to be in the dark anyway about media, then they must control the minds of the next generation…did you notice that 16 year old girl furiously putting on gobs of make up…hello!…will the PM also ban make up commercials, etc..or will corporation media continue to plague children with their "you're not good enough ought ads" that ARE primarily at the heart of most of children's problem he has raised? No? What an FN hypocrite!! Does this propaganda actually slip by your minds unnoticed, and encourage you to support this rogue PM? OMG! Parents, wake up..first go get some education on how to spot BS and propaganda before you become a part of it…yes, social media providers can do a better job, beginning with less advertising…but parents, admit it, YOU could do better…if you are going to turn control of your kids over to the state, then just take them down to get a chip implant and be done with parenting altogether…this is just the first stage of a plan they know would horrifying you…they have you figured out…wake up, say no to state control of yiur children's minds..

World economic Forum is behind a lot of these instructions/demands to countries, the disinformation legislation, digital id, digital currency, smart cities, pandemic control, mandatory Vaccine, you'll own nothing and be happy.

We want something like this india too.I am hating myself being awake till 4:00 am in the morning. 😢

Its a joke. Australians dont want the government involved in their lives.

Dude looks at some of those girls and all the makeup they are wearing all that makeup! Dude when do kids get to be kids again sheesh! No way shut it down!

I am for the ban. Social media has really taken a toll on the kiddos for example: all the botox, the young kids in sephora, kids that are spending thousands of dollars on their parents credit card because they "need" what the girl on social media is wearing, eating disorders, cyber bullying, etc. Think about young kids and ads man many times walking through the store and I see the kids throwing temper tantrums because they didn't get the thing they wanted and saw on ads!! Come on kids need to go touch grass. Here a thought back in the day when people were more disconnected we had more inventive ideas. The more we are on the media the less time we have less time reading books first of all! GO TOUCH GRASS!

I’m ok with this

Imagine having to talk to your friends in person and interact with real life. Brutal

I'm 51, there's no going back to the way it was. That era has long gone. Society wants our children to be well informed but how?. We need to teach kids how to navigate social media and learn what's manipulative.
Banning Social media will only make it more lucrative.
Schools need to act on this. Banning it is a government quick fix

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