Australian Senate, last sitting of the year. No idea when the Social Media Ban debate is kicking off.

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i guess that’s true but the system totally shouldn’t function that way at all, group punishment is retarded.

we pay these dumbasses to run our government for us, shouldn’t we be holding them accountable when they do dumb shit like this, rather than just accepting it as how the real world is?

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Have mega corporations like Facebook/meta and Twitter/x been held accountable? Because they’ve resulted in kids killing themselves or developing psychological disorders.

What I’m not seeing is the backlash against those.

Fuck our useless government. Incompetent like most. But I’m so sick of the corpos getting a little bit of outrage and then not only do people move on in short order, but they keep using their platform and generating profit for them.

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Come to Darwin where because there are people who get drunk and do stupid shit and get banned from buying alcohol, we are all punished and must present I.D every time we purchase takeaway alcohol.

Governments love group punishment because it’s easiest to implement.

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@Aussiemandeus

Is it a requirement to merely “present” I.D. or are the details of the I.D. also recorded at the POS?

@Jumuta@sh.itjust.works

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The place it in a machine and it is scanned and compared to a data base.

This came into effect 10 years or so ago.

Now they’re looking to record amounts you buy too because some places allow one bottle or carton per person per day

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