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Re:Australia proposes ban on social media for those under 16 by account42 on Friday November 08, 2024 @06:38AM (#42086044)
> That said; how does a young individual get updates to public transport outages that are only available via twitter/x, or read the menu of the local cafe that is only posted on Facebook?

I have never needed either of these so maybe those kids will manage too?

And especially in the public transport case that information should really be made available outside of private platforms in any case.

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Re:Australia proposes ban on social media for those under 16 by thrw42A8N on Friday November 08, 2024 @03:22PM (#42090155)
I need these multiple times every day, so maybe not. And this information simply isn't available elsewhere, regardless of what we think about it - in many cases it's not official but crowd sourced in a FB group, it's not a matter of simply publishing news articles on a different site.
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