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It sounds like you don’t know much about how Australia’s legal system works, or parenting for that matter.

Laws are always broad and vague by intention. Courts interpret the law, and regulators investigate contraventions.

Empowering parents would be helping them understand methods for combating toxic social media use or supporting them in improving their internet and cyber safety literacy.

You seem to be wildly overestimating the level of interest most parents have in such things. Social media has become such a problem precisely because parents generally have given up on this particular battleground.

Sorry, this is baseless supposition.

WDYM that’s not how the law works? All laws are a statement of societal expectations.

it doesn’t empower parents to do anything

Of course it does. Obviously, it’s much easier to tell your kids they’re not allowed to use facebook if most of their friends aren’t using facebook.

It only applies to sites hosted by companies or people with a presence in Australia

So you mean, the vast majority of platforms on which children congregate?

Not really.

This law draws a line in the sand indicating societal expectations.

It empowers parents to set and maintain appropriate boundaries without being influenced by what other parents allow their kids to do. Its a lot easier to maintain a “no social media” rule if other parents are doing the same.

Also I dont really have any faith at all in the young teenagers of today being able to circumvent anything. Sure. A few will… but certainly not most or even a significant portion.

If you cant install it from the app store then its out of reach.

That’s not what’s been proposed.

She’ll find a way to bribe Trump

You mean like… tell him she will spill the details about the redacted stuff in the released documents?

challenges with focus and self-control

This seems to be what teachers are reporting.

There’s some threads in /r/teachers on that other site which are pretty terrifying. It sounds like the majority of kids are in dopamine withdrawal all day at school.

Well yeah but just because “they” no longer say that doesn’t mean it isn’t true, nor does it mean that short form video doesn’t “rot your brain”.

As in all things, moderation is key.

If you let your kids watch this trash for hours a day they’re going to be imbeciles.

I’m trying to parse this but I just don’t get it.

The only explanation I can come up with is simply that Trump identifies Mamdani as a popular democratically elected official, and wants to share some of that sunshine.

Still weird as hell.