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Australia is the first nation to ban social media for under-16s. (globalvoices.org)
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Landmark legislation sees the Australian government committed to the novel step of child protection by banning social media for under sixteens.

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[–] EmilyIsTrans@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Are you Australian? That just feels like kind of a US centric lens to analyze this through, though you're right that loss of community is a byproduct.

Like, I'm not exactly happy with the Albanese government, but I would say that most negative LGBTQ things they have said or done have been cowardly attempts to avoid drama from the Liberals, not active bigotry

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

What community? This is social media we're talking about. Have people really convinced themselves that these things are communities?

[–] EmilyIsTrans@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 hours ago

Social media is not a good replacement for real life community (look through my comment history and you'll see me expressing exactly that repeatedly), but we can't be oblivious to the fact that for many children their only connection to fellow queer people may be online. If you live in a small town or community where there are no other openly queer people, or if your school, peers, and parents are hostile to queer people you won't have much choice in where you find community.