If you were wondering what an eSafety boss is:

Julie Inman Grant, Australia’s eSafety Commissioner

Politics across the globe have been playing catch-up with digital realities for so long, it's embarrassing. Only now they're waking up to Facebook & Co, while new shit* pops up all the time, but again and again they believe that restricting a few platforms is the solution.

We need a whole new approach. One that involves politicians listening to actual experts instead of pollsters, I guess. What a mess.

* ways to seriously abuse internet users into giving up more data and create more ad revenue for content creators, platform owners, software developers companies. Even babies nowadays (if their parents let them watch that). [edit: yes, that's about youtube, but also about AI if you watch closer. Point is, it's not just one platform, it's content producers putting revenue over content & ethical concerns, since nobody tells them where to stop]

CIA plant wants Australian children to only watch broadcast television and not access the internet until they're 16.

No Youtube, No Netflix, No Fortnite - Broadcast TV only.

What’s scary is that limiting kids access to social media sites that promote algorithmic content is controversial. Of course kids shouldn’t be on YouTube. There are great streaming alternatives that are suitable for kids, ABC’s iView in Australia, BBC’s iPlayer in the UK, etc.