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[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

Of course he would

He's a cunt who profits from doing harm

I live in Australia, and the banning social media for kids thing was idiotic, but it was set in motion by the previous conservative government and was unfortunately popular with the voting public

This is the current, vastly better, government trying to make lemonade out of lemons by turning that shitty legislation into something actually helpful

They know kids are getting around the ban, so they're working with it rather than trying to waste time and resources repealing shit legislation