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Australia’s Social Media Ban Was Pushed By Ad Agency Focused On Gambling Ads It Didn’t Want Banned (www.techdirt.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/DeclineIntoCensorship@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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[–] 3 points 10 months ago (7 children)

That's ok, you can do the right thing for the wrong reasons.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    But this is the wrong thing for the wrong reason.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (5 children)

    I'm not convinced that preventing Facebook and YouTube from tracking children is a wrong thing.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

    So outlaw tracking children.

    PieFed/Lemmy isn't doing that, yet it's affected by this ban. So obviously that wasn't their concern.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    It is already outlawed in most places, yet it still happens. And I think we can all agree that lemmy isn't actually the problem here.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Yet this ill-thought out social media ban doesn't care.

    Banning teens from accessing the social and cultural aspects of the Internet and their social support networks will not help solve childhood depression.

    But rest assured because this ill-thought out social media ban allows children to watch the front-page alt-right propaganda on YouTube because hey they can't sign in due to no more account to customise their feed and the ban doesn't stop them watching content when logged out.

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