Ah yes, disabled people are defective and should be cared for in special facilities for their own protection - lets call them wellness resorts. Also they should be prevented from having children and perpetuating their defective jeans. Also they should have to contribute to their own upkeep doing easy jobs like picking cotton fruit. Also depressed people are defective too soo…

I dont really know what the solution is.

The harder you mandate it, the more people will get nutty about it.

I do feel that anti-vax nutters are internalising the benefits of vaccinations (by benefiting from herd immunity) but externalising the risks (by enjoying healthcare when they get sick).

In Australia unvaccinated kids dont get government support for things like day care or parenting payments et cetera.

I employed a young woman who was earning $700 a week buy paying $500 a week for day care because they refused to vaccinated her. They were living on the husband’s salary. It seemed pretty bleak to me.

Like in Australia you need to save every dollar to buy a house or retire. Sure you can have a few baubles but no one can afford $25k a year for this kind of idiocy.

Of the 111 outbreak cases, 105 were unvaccinated, three were partially vaccinated, two had an unknown status, and one case was fully vaccinated

What’s with all the “cope” comments?

Sorry Americams. I didnt really want to visit before you self-nazified. Certainly dont now.

This must be the most tedious conversation since the dawn of the internet.

I replied to some nutter inferring that this was some dastardly overreach by our authoritarian overlords.

Then you show up, basically saying the same thing I am but in the most unintelligible and snarky way possible?

This was always the stated plan though.

Think more about how to communicate.

What’s your point?

No.

Some pearl-clutches said “won’t somebody think of the children”, and then made the social media companies figure out how to implement the ban.

It’s more than pearl-clutching though.

Kids dependency on social is a genuine social problem. Any parent that cares about their kids is deeply concerned about this.

I don’t really buy the “govt access to biometrics” angle. These companies have all the biometrics they could ever want.

The ban is going to be easy to circumvent technologically, but not so much socially. At this very moment, being the evening of 10 December, families around Australia are having conversations about social media and the problems it can cause.

It should be for the parents to let their children use social media or not

The issue is, parents who do not want to let their children use social media have really lost the battle because every other kid is on social media. So if even if a parent stands their ground on a strict “no social” policy, their kid is an outcast.

With this law, even though some kids will still be on social, parents are empowered to hold the line.

That’s not how the law is structured.

Sites are required to implement reasonable measures.

If kids are being evaluated as 18, with no additional checks, that’s not reasonable and they’re risking the penalties.

We’re going to find out whether the regulator has much appetite to issue those penalties, but we will see I guess.

Ooh, and social credit! Maybe you’ll need to earn social credit which you’ll require to access some websites, with some like social media only being provided to people with a high enough social credit score! /s

Are you 12?

On the contrary.

Loads of new platforms have sprung up with are not listed amongst those required to implement age verification.

Yes, any which become successful will be required to implement age verification but… they will already be successful.

I’m genuinely curious who you think will be blocked next?

This is a wildly popular measure in Australia.

I don’t care?

I’m kind of astonished that you don’t seem to be able to discern between laws, rights, and societal expectations. There’s nuance here that seems to be completely lost on you.

You’re correct that recording people in public is legal. However, while most people don’t mind being recorded for surveillance / security purposes, they sure as fuck do mind being recorded as content for someone’s tiktok following.

Like any anti-social behavior, most people might just ignore you, some people will tell you to knock it off, but sooner or later you’ll encounter someone who doesn’t give a fuck and they’ll retaliate, perhaps violently. This shouldn’t be surprising.

Is it “right” or lawful to assault someone who is recording you? Of course not, but it’s a manifestation for society’s distaste for this shit.

Saying someone’s opinion is a “bad take” is just another “everyone’s on my side” argument.