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Two months into the social media ban, a teenager says it's 'useless' (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 2 months ago by Zagorath@quokk.au to c/australia@aussie.zone

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[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It was never about protecting children. It was always about spying on citizens.

And now the Albo is giving all our personal data to the Seppos, we are pretty much screwed.

[–] Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'm still convinced it's largely a result of existing institutions being spooked after having lost control of the narrative on social media about Israel's settler-colonial genocide.

[–] galoisghost@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago

I agree. The failure of the Israeli propaganda freaked governments out.

Hence this dumb shit and its clones across the globe and the US purchase of TikTok.

[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago

Existing institutions are still controlling the narrative, just that people aren’t believing it.

One good think about the GenBS bubble is that those people that aren’t complete drones improve their BS detectors.

The problem are that there are still plenty of complete drones who still believe everything that is fed to them.

[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

existing institutions know that the UN panel is a sham of unqualified people using lies

and looks to me like you will believe anything if a person uses a marxist victimhood narrative