Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption

Re:Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps... by giantg2 on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @06:10PM (#44740089)

"The primary/secondary legislation approach tends to head off that possibility because secondary legislation that is genuinely unwieldy tends not to get out of committee."

Cause and effect is off here. If the primary legislation we already have makes it out of committee to be loaded down after, then having secondary legislation would also be loaded down after. Splitting into two stages isn't the fix. Fixing the two party issues would still be necessary.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps... by exasperaited on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @06:38PM (#44740359)

> If the primary legislation we already have makes it out of committee to be loaded down after

But it wouldn't be. I mean, you can't retrofit this onto the US system now anyway, but the primary/secondary split culturally leads to much, much smaller primary legislation.

Our system still produces bloated things like the UK tax code, but the general thrust of UK primary legislation is that it is absolutely small enough to be read fully and debated.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps... by giantg2 on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @06:53PM (#44740481)

"but the primary/secondary split culturally leads to much, much smaller primary legislation."

Maybe if starting from zero, but not with the established culture.

[ Parent | on HN ]