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   Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 19:11:30 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

   Tell me, is it the job of the government (whichever country you're in) to parent your children?

   https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gzd62g1r3o?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-gb

   Australia's government seems to think so.

   Parenting is the job of *parents*, training youngsters how to emotionally handle the world. Social media is a valuable source of information and contact, one which the Australian government believes must be censored from young people.

   I would argue that such a ban is an attack on human rights (the right to read, and to free speech).

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     Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 19:15:28 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

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     I say, Australia's Labor Party seems to be a bigger risk of harm towards youths than anything else.

     Not that such a ban would actually be enforceable; when you tell young people *not* to do something, they will do it even more.

     The young are generally tech-savvy and know how to circumvent internet censorship. The only way to really implement such a ban would perhaps be requiring photo ID to use such sites, but you could use a VPN for instance, accessing it from a country that has no such laws.