Senator Shoebridge opposes the Government's age ban for social media

Let’s be clear what a social media age ban means: it’s an age monitoring plan for everyone. Whether it’s achieved by monitoring keystrokes or scanning faces this will result in systemic privacy invasion.
And for what? This Government won’t even tell us what the harm they are targeting here is - if the harm is excessive screen time why aren’t games and netflix considered, if the harm is bullying why on earth are messaging apps exempt?
The truth is this entire policy is a thought bubble from a Government unwilling to have the hard conversations about tech regulation to keep online spaces safe and educating young people and their parents on how to manage risk, how to think critically about online content and how to set sensible boundaries based on evidence. Labor and the Coalition have given up on digital literacy apparently at the behest of the Murdoch papers. Really makes you think doesn’t it?

[@hopperthecat9655]

Thank you for speaking up!

[@MAMethven]

Yes, stop this authoritarian stuff now.