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And who gets to decide which platforms count as 'social media'?

This is a problem with Australia's attempt to ban kids from it, where there's some surprising exemptions from the restrictions.





> And who gets to decide which platforms count as 'social media'?

The voting public via their elected representatives, as with literally all laws.


The very people with the most to gain from silencing dissidents or suppressing certain viewpoints given the power to restrict access to selected social media platforms while encouraging the use of others.

None of this recent crackdown on social media is really about 'protecting the kids', is it?




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