Kids not being informed about the war crimes of their state, and other states.

NoPicklez 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

They can go and watch the news on the TV, they an also go and visit other news websites.

	▲	MomsAVoxell a day ago \| parent [-]
		Pretending that ‘news’ is an effective means of informing oneself is how we got into the mess of Western atrocities in the first place.

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barbazoo 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> Kids not being informed about the war crimes

Interesting to frame this as a bad thing. As a parent, I would take that as a feature, not a bug. To me this is very suspicious why there seem to be so many people here, who I am assuming are mostly adults, advocating so strongly strongly for <16 olds told be on social media, as if it was something they need.

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trallnag 3 days ago | parent [-]

You sound like a Russian government official.

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barbazoo 3 days ago | parent [-]

Haha or a person who's been around lots of children of all ages.

An under 16 year old not seeing the social media version of war crimes is a good thing. And that's the upper limit of the age range of this ban.

	▲	MomsAVoxell a day ago \| parent [-]
		The “social media version of war crimes” is just .. war crimes. 15 - 16 year olds will grow up to inherit the war crimes of their state. The liabilities of the state are the responsibility of every single citizen. And, let us not forget, that a government is always and only ever held accountable to its citizens if those citizens are well informed. “Protecting children” is one thing. But a state that feels the need to defend itself from children - by mass murdering them at scale - is another thing entirely. Let us also not forget that the Australian government is a wholesale violator of human rights, and has committed genocide and participated in heinous war crimes with impunity, pretty much since its inception. This is a nation which was still practicing forced sterilization of cultures its ruling classes deemed inferior, well into the 1980’s. This is a nation that literally got away with the modern worlds’ first genocide. That state of affairs is never going to change if there are a generation of bootlickers, raised by the state, to never question the state. There will be a generation of Australians, in 3 or 4 years time, who will either strongly resist the totalitarian-authoritarian actions of their state - or they’ll participate in them.