What is it with the Right always refusing to force producers of toxic products from paying for the social cost of those toxic products?
Smoking kills 67% of those who use them and Booze kills 600+ a year, yet the Right always want to let them off the hook for that damage.
The same is true of social media.
Social media has caused enormous social carnage, yet we point blank refuse to enforce any restrictions on them at all!
I don’t think the Australian ban of under 16s on social media actually goes far enough, and this brilliant piss take points out…
The Australien Government has made an ad about the Social Media Ban for Under-16s, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative. #auspol pic.twitter.com/QwcVOHptLs
— theJuiceMedia 🦋 (@thejuicemedia) December 9, 2025
…we should be doing far more to regulate social media.
It is designed to act like crack cocaine to your brain and addict you to endless doom scooping, why allow a product like that to be utterly unregulated?
Bec cause the Tech Tzars are in total control now.
As the most recent AUT Journalism, Media and Democracy Research Centre Media Ownership Report 2025 points out, the media companies who create the content are valued at $381.2billion where as the Tech companies whose platforms that content appears on are valued at $21.9 trillion, that is an extraordinary change of power and influence over the entire media landscape with profound implications.
The Big Tech Tzars have manipulated our collective fear, ego, anger and insecurities through social media in a way that has led to the largest psychological civil war ever launched against one another.
Fuck the Big Tech Tzars and their damaging influence upon our culture, society and politics, their social media hate algorithms have created an All-Tribe-No-Village landscape that puts us against one another instead of those who are causing the damage!
Meanwhile, the planet burns and every aspect of our existence is monetarised for big data to sell us more stuff we can’t afford. We are alienated and anesthetized by a consumer culture that keeps us neurotic and disconnected. Our work, our existence, every move we make are all built to suck money to a minority class that sits above us while under neoliberalism, globalization, financialization, and automation, our existence as individuals has only become more disposable.
Australia banning under 16s from social media harm isn’t going far enough
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My grandson and most of his class of 13 year Olds have all re-registered u Der new name and profile . I personally think it is a good idea but it is hard to take it away after years of it being there way of life .
The problem of social media is that it is harder for goverment to control the flow of information compared to mainstream media. Nonetheless, as we can see, the screws are tightening. Otherwise mainstream media is the real societal killer of today’s world.
I know of four year old kids addicted to their parents phones – crack dopamine, kinda.
Very good explaination of phone addiction. https://youtu.be/R6xbXOp7wDA
The social media bans are popular with the parents who gave up on being the adults in their family, and who now want government to be the ‘the bad guy’ banning kids from spending all their time on screens.