Millions of children and teens lose access to accounts as Australia's world-first social media ban begins

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28. Sneaky smokes and beers were a thing when I was a kid...

But my parents didn't take me out and buy me beer and smokes. They would have been cranky parents if they'd known. The social media ban is nothing like that. Only a few platforms are affected, and there's child friendly alternatives available to them.

I think you have to understand that US culture is what you're using to react to something that isn't American. As a culture we don't really like Americanism being imported here, whether it's the rank stupidity of the US electoral system, or the selfish and greedy individualism of many Americans. I for one am bothered by children being able to see extreme violence and murders on Twitter or Youtube and if there was a better way to make sure teens don't see that, I'd be all for it. I can't imagine you want kids to see that either, but I don't understand what your solution would be.

Finally, if the term liberal can apply to Cookers and anti-vaxxers, then I'm not one. I thought it was a political term, so apologies.

As far as you claiming the spate of suicides is a standard trope, you are clearly misunderstanding what's driving this, which is understandable seeing yr not an Australian and don't appear to know much about this. What drove it wasn't moral panic, but a group of parents whose children had committed suicide after being bullied online. Surely you're not going to accuse them of being moral panickers, are you?