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Re:Australians to face age checks from search engines by bamboozled on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @09:33PM (#44439508)
We basically have to teach children about misinformation, propaganda and the dangers of the internet from the age of 5...that's basically how it would need to go, it would suck for the ruling class though because we'd have to stop feeding kids religion (for example) from the day they're born...How can we expect kids to know what the truth is when they're lied to all the time.
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Re:Australians to face age checks from search engines by frollogaston on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @11:19PM (#44439983)
or just don't get them smartphones
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Re:Australians to face age checks from search engines by pmontra on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @11:55PM (#44440125)
Misinformation and propaganda are not only on smartphones.
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Re:Australians to face age checks from search engines by fc417fc802 on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @12:20AM (#44440226)
Still those do make it awfully easy to subscribe to notifications that actively push all sorts of problematic things onto you at an alarming rate. A high rate of exposure to something can lead to problems where there otherwise wouldn't be any.
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Re:Australians to face age checks from search engines by frollogaston on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @07:23PM (#44449892)
This doesn't mean they should have smartphones
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Re:Australians to face age checks from search engines by DiggyJohnson on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @12:46AM (#44440332)
> it would suck for the ruling class though because we'd have to stop feeding kids religion

This seems out of place and unrelated. If anything Gen Z and presumable Alpha, eventually, are more religious than their parents.

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Re:Australians to face age checks from search engines by graemep on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @04:25AM (#44441316)
> it would suck for the ruling class though because we'd have to stop feeding kids religion

The ruling class in the west are generally extremely anti-religious. They have a good reason to be - the biggest religion in the west is anti-wealth (the "eye of the needle" things etc.) and generally opposed to the values of the powerful.

The US is a sort of exception, but they say things to placate the religious (having already been pretty successful in manipulating and corrupting the religion) but very rarely actually do anything. I very much doubt the president (or anyone else) in the current US government is going to endorse "give all you have to the poor".

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