Yeah, I agree with the poster that it’s hypocritical - but you do not want to live nearby any of the mosques that blast daily prayers.

They’re long, they’re loud, they go five times a day (prior to dawn, start of work day, after work day, and late evening prior to sleep)… and I’m sure they all buy their loudspeakers from the same place that supplies cheap drive-thrus.

Tech giants are well known for lobbying against any legislation that gives them less freedoms to exploit markets and regulations of any kind that impact them - but this legislation that was targeted specifically at regulating them and removes a significant number of users - “this is suspicious, I think they might be the ones pushing it!”

There’s so many people in under this post trying to turn it into anything but what it is - legislation attempting to protect kids from the harms of social media. Which, again - are well documented.

In Australia we have this thing called school, all the kids go there.

I have kids at ages affected by this ban. They don’t care about it at all. They already communicate with their friends via iMessage and FaceTime (both unaffected by the ban), they walk to school - so they often walk with friends. Theres a small skate park near the local shops they also walk to and hang out with friends sometimes, they also walk to the shops and practice basketball with friends at nearby ovals with practice courts regularly. They go to cinemas or big shopping centres (malls) with their friends sometimes - but have to be driven there anyway so parents have to coordinate.

TLDR: the ban doesn’t affect a lot of kids at all, and they socialize more or less the same as I did when I was a kid.

The only kids heavily affected are those with Snapchat, Tiktok, Facebook and other crap that they shouldn’t be on to begin with, and are getting a huge favour done to them by removing them for a few years.

Who said anything about ‘prison population?’

I said “extremely oppressive” which is objectively factual. They have a ‘supreme leader’ who legally controls the police, the military, the executive branch of govt and most facets of peoples lives. The ruling party is legally allowed to repress other parties, and so on… And so forth…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_North_Korea

Inb4 “Wikipedia is a CIA psyop”

Yeah, like that ^

They use huge whataboutisms to excuse the extremely oppressive regime running the country currently, as though any criticism is unreasonable.