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This ban risks pushing children into increasingly covert and unregulated online spaces as well as preventing them from accessing aspects of the online world essential to their wellbeing,
It's entirely likely the ban could see young people pushed to darker corners of the internet where no community guidelines, safety tools, or protections exist,
We are concerned about the process, which rushed the legislation through while failing to properly consider the evidence, what industry already does to ensure age-appropriate experiences, and the voices of young people,
It's also obvious that the people who have drafted and fought for the particular elements of this bill actually have no idea how young people engage with the internet,
The most important thing would be absolutely the education situation today in our schools, brought on by influencers like Andrew Tate and ready access to pornography, where young boys are abusing young girls in our schools, and that’s the generation that’s growing up.”
If you can do it in a way in which you don’t isolate young people, which is the other challenge, and we can turn that into the norm, then I think it’s absolutely the right way to go,
Personally, I think it’s a brilliant idea, and I think it ties really neatly in with the work we do around tech abuse,
We are seeing something like well over 30% of young girls in schools are saying that they have experienced sexual harassment or abuse, and that is direct result of social media and often that’s being done on social media so that images are being shared.”
We know parents are concerned about the harms to children and we have taken a decision to support them
Seems like a backdoor way to control access to the internet by all Australians,
The law places the onus on social media platforms — not parents or young people — to take reasonable steps to ensure these protections are in place,
They've got financial resources, technologies and some of the best brainpower,
Social media is doing harm to our kids and I'm calling time on it,
I'll find a way. And so will all my other friends
I'd like to keep using it. And it'll be a weird feeling to not have it, and be able to talk to all my friends at home."
Kids and teens should be able to explore those techniques because you can't learn all those things from books,
This is boomers trying to tell young people how the internet should work to make themselves feel better,
It will only create a generation of young people who will be more technologically literate in bypassing these walls,
Putting an age limit and giving the control back to the parents, I think it's a starting point,