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Australia | Teenagers sue over social media ban for ‘violating their right to communicate’
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2025
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Good on em, parents should be regulating internet access and not the govt
Should they?
Does that include single parents? Overworked parents? Parents who don’t understand/use the internet? Do you believe that all children follow their parents’ rules when they step out of the door of their houses?
Make an actual argument for young children having social media access.
Govt could extremely easily release a product for parents, with or without NBN involvement, that helps control internet for kids. They don't and instead impact everyone with this bullshit
Those are not acceptable reasons for poor parenting. Don't move the goal posts.
You didn’t answer any of my questions.
The very children who are at risk are the ones with the type of families I listed, and other at risk types. If you leave it up to the parents, you’re essentially giving up on kids with “bad” parents.
I’ll ask a different way: if you’re a child and you have parents who don’t understand the issue, or are too busy and/or stressed out to monitor the issue, or if you have friends who provide you with access…do you deserve to be out at risk/fall through the cracks?
If you actually want to solve problems…you work together as a society…you raise children as a village. If you want all the problems associated with social media use and other issues you “leave it to the parents”, which is basically giving up.
Parents who neglect their children have their children removed. There are no excuses for bad parenting, there are plenty of resources to understand what "the internet" is. Seriously?
This is not a real argument. I've presented alternatives and you've ignored them. You raise strawmen and move goal posts. There are non police state alternatives. You're arguing in bad faith and I will not engage with you further
The other commenter isn't making strawman arguments, they made quite clear the complex situations in which a parent may not be in a position to monitor or control their childs use.
This is a strawman. It fails to imagine neglect of varied levels. It fails to acknowledge that child removal is the last resort after sustained and/or heavy neglect.
The alternative, you presented one that i see, is a government solution imposed from on high that is liable to the same 'police state' attacks you make about this legislation, or, will go unenforced and thus be a giant waste of time and energy because all parents, especially those time poor or 'not in the know', ignore the tool.
You’re just talking past me and not engaging with what I’m saying. All I’m saying is the reality of life for some families is that a kid shouldn’t be put at risk because their single mom (for example) is too busy or doesn’t want to die on the hill of not letting their kid talk to their friends on Discord or whatever.
Taking her kid away isn’t going to help the kid…or anyone…you’re just going to create more problems.