| ▲ | ocschwar a day ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frankly I want Australia to go ahead with this law so the rest of us can have a test case for it. If it works well we can copy it with tweaks. If not, then we know to seek other options. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | casey2 a day ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
What do you even mean by "work". You live in a fantasy land if you think the government will say we expect outcomes A, B and C from this law and will repeal or adjust it if all outcomes aren't met in 3 years. It's either a power grab or lobbying as others have suggested. SERIOUSLY! Is anyone claiming that childhood depression and suicide will go down to some range after this law is put in effect? Of course not. Will grades go up? "Government says I can't use social media, guess I'll study, go to sleep on time, and become a productive worker." - Average Australian kid? Will the number of sextortion caused suicides (in the <16 bracket) go back to 0 from 1 to the glory days of 2021 when social media didn't exist (nope, because he was 17 when he died and that was last year). Will the number of girls being sextorted for cash decrease? (reading this [1] you can just ask and they'll tell you, that's great, also it's the general sentiment between students that social media should be banned, another big win! Isn't it convenient when reality bends to ideology.) How exactly can you measure this? Is there a counter of the number of <16s who have seen porn/gore on social media and became too misogynistic or too autistic (or too much of a gay, trans, pedophile, brainrotted, degenerate, debauched, profligate, libertine, licentious, effeminate, wanton, vicious, perverse, recreant, lascivious, unrīht sodomite) for the government's taste? Anything more than a vague sense that cyberbulling will go down and irlbullying will go up a bit? probably Who knows, who cares! We allegedly have vague public sentiment! So grab away! It's blindingly obvious that this ban can't and won't change <16s habits past switching from their favorite app to whatever their friends are using now. [1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/australian-father-of-te... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | _hyn3 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
What is the acceptance criteria for this test case? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | egorfine a day ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
It will not work and this is exactly why it will be copied. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||