The Albanese Government is committed to keeping young people safe, particularly on social media.
We know that social media offers benefits to many Australians, but it is also a source of harm — too often, social media isn’t social at all.
The Albanese Government is committed to keeping young people safe, particularly on social media.
We know that social media offers benefits to many Australians, but it is also a source of harm — too often, social media isn’t social at all.
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That’s why just last week, National Cabinet endorsed our Government’s approach to legislate 16 as the minimum age for access to social media.
Do children not have guardians or other people that oversee them in you country?
You’ve been played like a fiddle!
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#auspol
Oh well. Green or indipendant next election I guess
Call the election so we can vote your genocidal regime out!
Glad you have got past that stage in your political development
So are you mistaken in this, it seems to be the case.
And I am generally polite
Thought I deserved some small compensatory retaliation for being censored
Call it square?
Clearly you do have a problem if you think it's a good idea starting a conversation with condescension.
SO many issues actually need addressing ... but this is your "Strawberry" moment!
Absolutely ridiculous!!!
So totally not what a Labor government should be doing
Shameful
Perhaps a meaningful gambling advertising ban should be your target & legacy
And they will punish you electorally for a decade as the inevitable hacks and leaks of PII commence.
https://youtu.be/V3y3QoFnqZc?si=rNUKsd2HMLGev5oz
When they complain of being bullied online simply throw them in gaol for using social media.
win-win, as you'd see it.
They ran Minecraft servers at age 13, they did their research using Social Media.
I got bullied in school/uni/life PRE Internet (90s).
Nasty things happen WITHOUT the Net, too!
We're not silly enough to believe your spin that "it's about the children". It isn't.
It's flat out #censorship & you've probably lost the next election
https://bsky.app/profile/numb.comfortab.ly/feed/aaaoy7ep36kru
Stop pretending you care about kids. If you did, you'd ban gambling ads, shut down Kyle and Jackie and do something about housing and raising Newstart.
We do NOT care about a non-issue that nobody apart from a handful of rabid Karens. WTAF are you doing?!
You are a clown party, forming a clown government.
That's all that's needed.
Stop wasting time and money on such a nonsense idea
#ALPLNPCoalition
Concentrate on your nosebleed immigration settings or 1 term it is
#raisetherates
Condemn the IOF
Don’t
Many of us have had a gutful of your ill advised policies & posts on X
This one in particular riles us all
Read the room
You’re antagonising your base
Has no one suggested that the impacts on every adult using social media might be electorally unpopular?
Enjoy minority government, you flogs
You know…. Engage with the community on here.
We are not here to be talked to, we are here to talk with.
Do better.
Go back there with this stupidity.
Prohibition doesn’t work ..
Education does.
What the fuck are you thinking.
If we had a Haka I’d be doing it in your face right now.
Such a straw man move.
In a field full of real problems to solve you pick the small problem and apply the wrong solution to it.
Boooo.
Do something bold for the greater good while you have the chance.
How about funding environmental restoration properly?
Why not concentrate on addressing the dreadful impact of gambling on so many people by banning all ads on all forms of media, including social media.
Being not quite as bad as the LNP is not enough.
Like, say, that old LNP policy of removing anonymity online.
Shame on you, @australianlabor.bsky.social
Not just that - but social media IS just a microcosm of society and banning younger kids is excluding them from participating
- national digital literacy and inclusion
- make platforms police manky behaviour
- national be nicer campaign
Petty, pointless, poorly thought out policy.
Please re-think it.
Stop listening to Newscorp & Rupert Murdoch.
You don't even have social media defined
You do know kids will simply move off to other platforms and your legislation will matter jot.
It's obvious someone put you up to this, and we can only think of Rupert.
Australian children are better off learning how evil our government is. It will help them make better decisions when they are adults.
Maybe, this is a mistake?
Do you want to lose an election over something so stupid? Because that's the vibe you're giving out.
But you guys have seriously swung too right wing.
Bring on the election.
how to be safe online and we know bans don’t create this space. #noagebans
It is NOT a protective measure for young people and will deprive many of their support networks.
Or are you actually just trying to distract from something else?
People need to know you are fighting the oligarchs who are hoarding resources ($) and infecting the world with hate. All these side gigs are contributing to you losing more trust.
Kids will access it if they want to access it. But now they'll need to do it using potentially malicious tools making it significantly harder for parents to monitor. Not to mention forcing everyone else to verify. Seriously are you trying to lose the next election?
a) ask them & just believe them? Totally useless. Kids will say ‘yup’!
b) require proof of age for everyone using social media? So every person over 16 in Australia gives Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg our full name, DOB. Mmm, OK 😳
And on a personal note, feel free to get out of my house, get out of my life, just do your job and mind your own business - it's my responsibility, not yours, to raise my children.
You are using a sledge hammer approach. Read the room.
The LNP knows it in the long run this is going to damage Labor.
This is something.
It must be done."
Another classic con. It'll be minimally effective, if at all, but they'll claim that they're thinking about the children.
So much easier than actually holding the billionaires to account.
And I’m a Labor supporter ffs
Get bent.
Your "ban" won't work, so you'll be back to having to work out an effective way to keep kids safe.
This bill serves no other purpose than to appease a few Murdoch readers too old to understand the reality. Meanwhile you expose millions to their personal info being available to access
Wake up to yourselves
https://support.apple.com/en-us/105121
Why have you overfunded private schools & underfunded public schools? Rupe?
We saw Albo's note of gratitude for Rupe's contribution to the US Evangelical moral panic into AUs education & the ban.
Foreign Interference?
You’re doing an excellent job of campaigning for Dutton.
Being better than the LNP has never been good enough.
Do adults without children have to upload their digital IDs too?
How are you policing this?
You are fucking ridiculous and have LOST my vote 100%!
Voted Labor since 1981, not in 2025.
#NoAgeBan
#Voteno
Labor government buckled under when threats from the gambling and sports industry appeared.
Also did nothing when 500,000 Aussies put their name to a petition for a Royal Commission into Murdoch's media corp
Poor, unmanageable policy position that fails to address the real issues.
Be better.
The stuff of authoritarianism.
Blanket banning every kid is collective punishment & does nothing to address the cultural problem of abuse head on.
As long as the kids are safe screw the adults?
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, or should I replace it with Australia?
- forcing every adult to provide ID to tech companies
- collecting location data through social media
- powers can be expanded without legislative approval
Then there’s the fact it won’t work.