Australiaâs dummy spit over kids on social media isnât the answer. We need an internet for children | Aleesha Rodriguez
The ban is a distraction from the need to develop of high-quality experiences online for children of different ages The internet, including social media, was not made with children and young people in mind. This is why online experiences are not always good for children and sometimes even exploitative, risky, and deeply problematic. No wonder parents are worried, educators are at a loss and the government feels compelled to act. But banning children from social media is not the answer. Anthony Albaneseâs announcement on Tuesday that the government intends to introduce legislation to enforce a minimum age on children accessing social media is a knee-jerk reaction. It has been made before the recent Joint Select Committee on Social Media and Australian Society has even issued a proper interim report, which undermines evidence-based policy. Continue reading...
A minimum age for children implies age verification for all. Albanese doing Conroy's work Hopefully the response is social media companies swiftly and completely blocking Australian IPs #auspol
Age restrictions have been in the spotlight since national cabinet's rapid review of strategies to prevent domestic violence found children's access to free pornography online had "normalised" degradi...
âInhuman political machineâ as a phrase has my LLM spidey senses tingling. Here, in an obit for Coolidge in 1933.
Galaxie 500's take on Ceremony
Yet again we are reminded that if you believe in things, if you have standards, if the demands of members matter, the parliamentary Australian Labor Party makes a terrible ally. Bravo to Fatima Payman for being better than that and hurrah for preferential voting.
First-term senator Fatima Payman has quit Labor to sit on the crossbench, after becoming the first Labor MP in decades to defy her party in a vote to recognise Palestinian statehood.
Respect to Fatima Payman for crossing the floor. Rare integrity.
A vote has been held in the Senate on Palestinian recognition.
The question I am left wondering here is what can be done on social media that can't also be done via a forum, email, messaging? This seems not only unenforceable, but unbounded as well.
Prime minister notes technology restricting childrenâs social media access still being developed but says ban would be âgood way to goâ
In which inherently inscrutable and incognisant methods launder biases and manifestly unlawful orders on the order of 10s of 1000s of human lives in Gaza. A computer system can never be held accountable. War crimes tribunals must hold accountable its implementers, its operators, and its users.
Israeli intelligence sources reveal use of âLavenderâ system in Gaza war and claim permission given to kill civilians in pursuit of low-ranking militants
Through its failures and its surrenders, no post Howard government has done more lasting damage to the fabric of Australia.
Laborâs deportation bill could be used to blacklist entire countriesâ citizens from obtaining visas to Australia
Greens attack the legislation, now the subject of a Senate inquiry, as a âTrump-style travel banâ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Entire countries could be blacklisted from obtaining visas to Australia under proposed legislation that has been described by migrant groups as âappallingâ and by the Greens as a âTrump-style travel banâ. The legislation â that will now be subject to a six-week Senate inquiry â could affect applicants from Russia, Iran, Iraq and South Sudan, as well as other countries unnamed by the government, that refuse to accept the forcible return of their nationals. Sign up for Guardian Australiaâs free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading...
Curious that the Open Arms, en route to Gaza with World Central Kitchen's food aid delivery, appears to have taken a sudden detour to the apron of Beirut International Airport on publicly available tracking.
