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Companies approached by the eSafety commissioner this month about the requirement to prevent under 16s from holding social media accounts from 10 December have conducted a self-assessment that the commissioner will use to decide if they need to comply with the ban.
eSafety will not be formally declaring which service meets the criteria but companies that eSafety believes meet the criteria will be expected to comply.
We start with “it’s to protect the children, you care about children don’t you?”
Once the mechanics are in place, and fewer people are complaining, we head toward, “we can’t just let everyone have access to everything, it’s for your own good.”
We go from disallowing a few by age, to only allowing a few by more strict criteria.
Agreed, we are basically being played by the elites to agree to their authoritarian control.
It always starts with discrimination. In this case it is age that is weaponised against us, with no respect to anyone. Society is already deep in ageism so no wonder they are using that as a pivoting point - infantilizing our people and ultimately stripping all their rights.
Ageism cannot continue because in the end our own naivety will destroy our freedom.
First they came for the children and I did nothing, for I was not a child