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This is the third and final session on the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024 — aka U16's Social Media Ban - an important piece of legislation being waved through by the Liberal and Labor parties with minimal debate. The Department was called to explain the...

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Amanda Rose1 year ago

God this makes my blood boil. Thank you Malcolm for using your voice and standing up for the Australian people. I do not believe parents are asking the Government for this, and I do not believe kids are asking the Goverment for this - what a load of absolute shit. The fact they do NOTHING about porn, child trafficking and give r*pist minimal sentences in court tells us all we need to know about these people. Stay the fuck away from our kids.

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Lee Adam Wilshier 🍉 #NoJabForKids1 year ago

They are tying to usher-in a digital ID by the back door, keep fighting. Australia doesn't want it, we didn't want an ID card back in the day when we had that referendum and we don't want it now and the govt knows this. That's why they're doing it this way, so they can please their NWO masters and begin the digital track and trace system.

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LT1 year ago

Who are ‘the parents’ they are referring to? I’m a parent and didn’t get the memo. These people are clueless. I haven’t met a parent yet that agrees with this ridiculous bill. It won’t work anyway, kids are much cleverer than they think.

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JAG Talks1 year ago

Thanks for pushing back Malcolm. We all see who is standing up for us and our children.

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Francis Barram1 year ago

@AusLiberalParty LNP must stop with hubris and pause. This bill needs amendment and proper review.

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EMU 🇦🇺🐭1 year ago

We are lucky to have you and rennick please keep fighting 💪🏽

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Tall Nupinks ( ₳ / 🇦🇺 / 📚/ 🛡️/ 🎾 / 🍩 )1 year ago

Thank you for your continued fight @MRobertsQLD 🙏💪🇦🇺

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☀️CareBear 🐶🐴🐭1 year ago

@MRobertsQLD is this shit show actually constitutional?

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Siobhan1 year ago

I'm sorry but anyone can watch porn hub, without an account or any age restriction. Why are SM platforms required to have age verification but not porn sites? Isn't this bill supposed be all about reducing online harm to children? Further proof this bill can't achieve its goal.

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Miyke 🇬🇧🇦🇺1 year ago

@DFA_Analyst This just highlights the incompetence of government pushing through Poorley thought out policies. It’s all about control not protection ! Great job Malcolm as always 👏

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Social media ban or big brother control? The government, with support of the Liberals, is proposing a ban on children under 16 accessing social media, justifying the measure by claiming it’s "popular." Oh, really? It’s ironic that the same parties that accuse One Nation of populism are now pushing a measure not because it’s practical, but simply because it’s supposedly popular. A true conservative party Peter Dutton would support parents to supervise their own children in their own homes. A true conservative, Mr Dutton, would not be promoting big government replacing parents. The eGovernment is also trialling age-assurance technology, which uses facial scans of every social media user to confirm they are over 16. If there’s any doubt, the system will cross-check the person’s Digital ID to ensure it matches. In addition to facial scans, the "Assurance AI" will monitor keystrokes, audio patterns and "other measures" to determine the user’s age. By now you may conclude, as I did, that enforcing a social media age limit of 16 would require verifying everyone’s age using the device camera and their Digital ID—which everyone would be forced to have. So much for Digital ID being voluntary. Even adults will need one to continue using social media. Even more alarming is the fact that conversations would be monitored for signs of age, yet what happens to the voice prints and keystroke logs this system collects? To make this work, cameras on devices would need to run constantly to ensure a new user hasn’t hopped on to an existing computer session. This means cameras would always be on, capturing everything - video and audio – that is happening in the room. This creates a perfect scenario for hackers to access the feed. In the unlikely event they can actually make this work, children would move to other platforms that are less regulated, less safe and more prone to child exploitation. One Nation opposes this legislation. The best people to monitor and regulate children’s internet use are parents—not a Big Brother government.

Malcolm Roberts 🇦🇺

65,540 views • 1 year ago

I’ve been talking to heaps of parents about the U16 Social Media Ban that’s due to commence in about 5 weeks. It seems most parents haven’t told their kids yet about the upcoming ban and a couple of parents weren’t even aware it was happening. As of Dec 10th anyone under the age of 16 is going to lose access to their Facebook, Insta, YouTube and Snapchat accounts. YouTube seems to be the one that is used the most and many parents are simply planning to log their children into their own accounts so that their kids can continue using the platform. The user habits of both parents and kids on the same account is no doubt going to confuse the age assurance predictions that most of these tech companies have implemented for the u16 ban. This will result in parents having to provide identification to prove their age and continued use of their accounts. The government wanting to play parent to both adults and children in Australia means that kids are going to potentially be exposed to more harmful content online and it will also create privacy issues as a result of adults having to supply their ID and other personal information to these data harvesting social platforms. The ban is also going to be rolled out just as most kids are starting the long Summer break which means many children will loose contact and online social interactions with many of their friends and family over the Christmas period. The only positive thing that will results from this is that there will be approx 2.5 million kids who grow up hating the government and its control overreach.

Miss Madeleine

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Craig Kelly:🇦🇺Foundation for Economic Education

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Gerard Rennick

155,799 views • 1 year ago

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Pauline Hanson 🇦🇺

232,278 views • 1 year ago

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