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   Jessica 🏳️‍⚧️🇦🇺 (she/her) (jessica_fey@mastodon.au)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 09:33:22 JST Jessica 🏳️‍⚧️🇦🇺 (she/her)

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   • Jon F :anarchist_flag: & ☮️

   @AvonVilla The ban has consequences for all kids and adults. There are better ways to protect kids from social media than a total ban. With the ban, a lot of kids being harassed by their parents will go unnoticed. The ban puts marginalized groups of kids like disabled kids, lgbtqia+ kids, especially trans and none binary kids in danger. Without social media, I would have never known there are people like me out there.

   This bill is being rushed through as a distraction so that Labor can gain parent's votes without providing actual solutions to the cost of living, housing, and many other important problems.

   Plus, imagine that any of your activities in social media can be traced back to you. Any of your criticism and objection to government performance will be traced back to you. Resistance will be seized to exist, and the whistle blowers can't stay anonymous.

   No, this is not about protecting kids. This is about surveillance, and it will put most of us in danger, especially now that the world is going towards fascism

   In Iran, we used social media to coordinate protests without putting the coordinators in danger. With this bill, the government would arrest anyone who dares to coordinate anything against them.

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     Jon F :anarchist_flag: & ☮️ (avonvilla@aus.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 09:33:23 JST Jon F :anarchist_flag: & ☮️

     In my opinion the social media ban for kids in Australia is a good thing. Even imperfect legislation would be better than exposing children to the dangers. I compare it to drivers' licences, tobacco, alcohol, voting, heroin, methamphetamine. These are all things which are denied to children and it's not controversial AFAIK.

     In particular the chapters in the book "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" by Shoshana Zuboff (2019) discuss the potential damage to child and adolescent development. A lot of this would also apply to the fediverse too.

     Several of the practices of commercial social media should be banned entirely, for example surveillance, not seeking consent (opt-out policies), targeted advertising, engagement algorithms. Under-16s are not the only victims.

     #auspol #socialmedia

     Charlie Stross repeated this.