Posted on 12/09/2025 10:35:59 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
It bars children younger than 16 from holding accounts with Facebook, Instagram, Kick, Reddit, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, X, YouTube and Twitch. The platforms face fines of up to 49.5 million Australian dollars ($32.9 million) if they fail to take reasonable steps to remove the accounts.
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As young Australians, we will be completely silenced and cut off from our country and the rest of the world with this ban. It's like we've just grown up with this our entire lives and now it's just being taken away from us all of a sudden. We wouldn't even know what else we could do.
I've already heard of these like different apps that kids are going to jump to because like this social media is being taken away. But I believe once this social media is taken away, these platforms, the main ones, they are actually, they're not like perfectly regulated but we can like control them and like they're more regulated than other social media platforms. And when kids like jump to these less regulated social media platforms, that's when like they're shown more things or they're more like vulnerable to online bullying or predators.
It's when it's less regulated. And Noah engages social media in so many positive wholesome ways. The things that Noah's generation learns, we dreamed of.
We were so limited to libraries and single pages of encyclopedia. My parents would never have dreamed that my children could be so fortunate to have this library of knowledge. But I really credit Noah as a young person who recognizes the dangers of social media.
It's not all sunshine and lollipops.
Isn’t Australia one of the countries that wanted to lower the voting age to 16 a few years ago?
The only thing that can save us is to kill the internet completely.
I absolutely love this, it’s time for adults to act like adults. This crap has no redeeming value for kids under 16. Next, provide them great schools, not the failed public schools we have in America. Then you will have a productive society with smart kids and less mental illness..
Guess who got an exception?
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Bluesky. Yep X is banned but the leftist cesspool is allowed
You do realize this is the end of posting anonymous political opinions in Australia?
Then we know what it’s really about.
Besides meta targeting young users with addictive tech,
and collecting minors’ personal info/privacy concern
there’s this re ongoing exposure to inappropriate content
It’s about time they faced some accountability.
And all adults to be tracked
I guess there’s no way that a parent can keep their kids from having a smart phone.
Just wait until these under 16 are elected and the politicians that did this are seniors ,LOOK OUT LOL
These kids are learning a life lesson.
Never trust anyone over thirty.
The only thing that can save us is to kill the internet completely.
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The problem is not the technologies but the people who misuse the technologies for evil purposes. Man has the capacity to misuse anything. Beyond Internet technology is the cell phone which is an even more pernicious device that is being misused in an addictive manner by evil minds. Your approach follows the Amish view, which is to banish from their society the devices and temptations of the modern world and perhaps their thinking is correct.
Yup—the youngsters will not get mad.
They will spend a couple of decades getting ready....
to get even.
You are not going to get good schools.
What you are going to get is a generation that has learned that those who have power make the rules.
That new generation will be radical and power hungry so they can make their own rules—and will have zero interest in listening to anything their elders say about anything.
It is creating a monster.
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We know this because this is exactly what happened here when the Biden administration worked with Big Tech to shut down and censor millions of young people.
Now we have young people who have zero interest is what older people have to say. The old people started the information war—and the young people will be around to finish it.
So what kind of Universal ID should be required to use the Interwebs?
“We wouldn’t even know what else we could do.”
There’s the problem.
Exactly. I see it. As one whose "office" has been the sidewalk in the summer for years (working on bikes for free as a ministry, by the grace of God) in a densely populated American "low income" city, I see the incremental change from year to year. Kids, young adults, most no longer even get out walk much in good weather, as they stay inside for hours on the phone. Hard to pay attention for more than a few secs. Being spoiled and as part of one child or maybe two with little interaction, little unstructured play, no chores, all contribute to:
Gen Z is burning out at work more than any otherIn the United States, a poll of 2,000 adults found that a quarter of Americans are burnt out before they’re 30 years old.
Similarly, a British study measured burnout over an 18-month period after the COVID-19 pandemic and found Gen Z members were reporting burnout levels of 80 per cent. Higher levels of burnout among the Gen Z cohort were also reported by the BBC a few years ago.
Globally, a survey covering 11 countries and more than 13,000 front-line employees and managers reported that Gen Z workers were more likely to feel burnt out (83 per cent) than other employees (75 per cent).
Another international well-being study found that nearly one-quarter of 18- to 24-year-olds were experiencing “unmanageable stress,” with 98 per cent reporting at least one symptom of burnout. - https://theconversation.com/gen-z-is-burning-out-at-work-more-than-any-other-generation-heres-why-and-what-can-be-done-270237
Of course, the "experts" blame other things.
So... they can have accounts on Rumble and TruthSocial?
Addictive Use of Social Media, Not Total Time, Associated with Youth Mental Health News June 18, 2025For mobile phones, about half of the children reported high addictive use from the start of the study that remained high through early adolescence, and about 25% developed increasingly addictive use as they aged. For social media, approximately 40% of children had high or increasingly addictive use. Unlike social media and mobile phones, video game use followed only two trajectories—high and low—without a distinct “increasing” group over time.
Both high and increasingly addictive screen use were associated with worse mental health (e.g. anxiety, depression, or aggression) and suicidal behaviors and thoughts.
“These kids experience a craving for such use that they find it hard to curtail. Parents who notice these problems should have their kids evaluated for this addictive use and then seek professional help for kids with an addiction,” says psychiatrist J. John Mann, the Paul Janssen Professor of Translational Neuroscience in Psychiatry and Radiology at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and the New York State Psychiatric Institute and one of the study’s senior leaders. - https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/addictive-use-social-media-not-total-time-associated-youth-mental-health
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