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Australia's social media ban plunged into chaos as youths flock to CHINESE alternatives (www.gbnews.com)
posted 171 days ago by SophiesBoyfriend 171 days ago by SophiesBoyfriend +64 / -0
Australia's social media ban plunged into chaos as youths flock to CHINESE alternatives
Australian youths have been racing to murky new social media platforms after the country's <a href="https://www
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– dagthegnome 32 points 171 days ago +32 / -0

They don't actually care. This was never about protecting young people: it was about forcing everyone to submit ID before using social media.

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– LastRights 25 points 171 days ago +25 / -0

After what the Australian government pulled during covid, you don't want these people anywhere near controlling the levers of social media.

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– SocraticMethod1 15 points 171 days ago +15 / -0

I know it's tempting to say this is planned, but honestly they just see maliciously incompetent.

You don't silence the 'circus' from a position of strength, the left have lost both political and cultural narrative and like in politics they move to shut down in a tantrum not realising for culture, you try that and another country easily fills that void.

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– TheKidsAreAltRight 14 points 171 days ago +14 / -0

It can easily be both. Someone who wanted this outcome know how badly the gov would bungle things and simply set up the dominoes to fall precisely like this.

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– SocraticMethod1 7 points 171 days ago +7 / -0

So the Australian government are useful idiots to a third party looking to undermine them, I can believe that.

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– ModsAreAIDS 2 points 171 days ago +2 / -0

Every western government is filled with useful idiots to a third party that is undermining them. 80 years ago, that third party determined that white peoples having their own countries would inevitably lead to them electing the next Hitler for no reason whatsoever. To avoid this, they decided to genocide all white peoples and give them no excuse not to elect the next Hitler.

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– SocraticMethod1 1 point 171 days ago +1 / -0

That didn't work as Black Adolf Hitler was officially elected this year..

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– trumpORbust 1 point 170 days ago +1 / -0

Jew-wH0

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– dzonatan 1 point 168 days ago +1 / -0

They trully do think that people are finally lulled and complacent.

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– ernsithe 1 point 170 days ago +1 / -0

It's planned. Not the move towards China per se but in general.

  • Ban something for a large group (A). There will be many complainers but the majority will still fall in line.
  • Some, group B, will put in the effort to find alternatives. When you crack down on those, the people from (A - B) will not care enough anymore because it no longer affects them. This makes the crackdown easier.
  • Repeat as necessary. Become more aggressive and authoritarian every time because more of the population has accepted the new status quo.

The next step will be to require all "social media" platforms to register in AU before they can be on the app stores. Then they will start expanding the definition of "social media" to include all means of communication. Every policy doubles as a trial balloon and they're always aiming for the same finish line.

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– 83671R18 14 points 171 days ago +14 / -0

Maybe that was the plan all along.

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– SameUnderstanding 4 points 171 days ago +4 / -0

Albo does like choking on that CCP cock

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– SophiesBoyfriend [S] 4 points 171 days ago +4 / -0

Someone told him “it’s racist not to”

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– NippleSalad 1 point 171 days ago +1 / -0

The small problem with that is he'd have to fake the choking.

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– AntonioOfVenice 2 points 170 days ago +2 / -0

So they might actually learn math, rather than the newest neopronoun for Foxkin?

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– ApparentlyImAHeretic 2 points 171 days ago +2 / -0

whoever didn't see this coming, I have new bridges for sale for a limited time only! 50% off! I've got wood bridges, Arch Bridges, bridge clubs, completely overstocked on Bridges and I'm passing the savings on to yoooooouuuuu!!!

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– DresdenFirebomber 1 point 171 days ago +1 / -0

Tfw China is more free than Australia.

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