{"title": "Australian Ban on Social Media Will Make Everything Worse!!!", "timestamp": 1732879131.7218287, "description": "News came to me via [Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org) *( a Free / Libre Social Media platform )* that apparently [Australian government just banned Social Media to a certain demographic of people](https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/28/24308245/australia-bans-social-media-children-under-16) and the consensus is that it is apparently a good thing. Social Media tends to be very bad these days. Due to [enshitification](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification) and mass surveillance of platforms such as Facebook and [Ex-Twitter](https://stallman.org/glossary.html#extwitter) you can give a pretty solid argument why banning social media all together will make things better. But I fail to see nothing else but an expression of [age-discrimination](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageism) in this ban, when not all people are banned, but only children.", "author": {"avatar": "https://blenderdumbass.org/pictures/favicon.png", "bio": "Aka: J.Y. Amihud. A Jewish by blood, multifaceted artist with experience in film-making, visual effects, programming, game development, music and more. A philosopher at heart. An activist for freedom and privacy. Anti-Paternalist. A user of Libre Software. Speaking at least 3 human languages. 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And honesty helps very little except by making people feel safer.", "username": "AnonymousGuest", "id": 1, "timestamp": 1773763381.0180404}]}, "tab": "articles", "url": "https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/australias_ban_on_social_media_will_make_everything_worse", "hashtags": ["Australia", "SocialMedia", "Kids", "Paternalism", "Law", "Philosophy", "Freedom", "LetGrow", "FreeRangeKids"]}