Take your hand off my kids ipads

[SSwans2011]

Not only is this a remarkably overreaching policy, it also just won't work and has the capacity to backfire spectacularly. Kids are tech savvy enough to figure out apps like Signal exist where they will be even harder to track.

I really don't understand who the ALP are trying to win over with this, and better yet, why they would do it on the eve of an election.

 

[HairyO]

Isn't Snapchat one of the worst platforms for teens being exploited?

They really should just call it the Tik Tok Bill. But do what America is doing and claiming its about national security.

 

[PiCkLeJuiCe]

They really should just call it the Tik Tok Bill. But do what America is doing and claiming its about national security.

The bill will backfire when it requires people to upload POI to a server that the PRC has a backdoor into.

 

[Cmarsh]

Why exactly are they doing this? Because some kids are killing themselves as there is a perception bullying on social media is cause and effect for this?

Most often suicide is multifactorial. Young people vulnerable to suicide will often have a history of traumas extraneous to any online bullying that may be occurring that may contibute to their suicidality.