I live in Australia. The social media ban for under 16’s was not successful at all. (this is anecdotal) Majority of social media platforms did not get effectively eradicated (including ticktock, instragram etc…) for under 16s. And at least snapchat (and maybe others) did get properly banned but then a few months later under 16s could log straight back on again with no issues.

Opinion time: even if the social media ban was regulated properly it still likely wouldn’t be effective, sure children that abide by the law and aren’t completely addicted will stop using social media. But the children that are properly addicted and need help are going to find ways around the ban, like using vpn’s and get driven underground being less likely to seek help since there is now an extra reason for it to be considered shameful. Just like banning drugs, banning social media doesn’t solve the issue.

I think an intelligent Marxist (not me) needs to do a proper class analysis on this I have found individual articles that have shown links between the social media ban and the gambling industry. And the gambling industry doesn’t give a crap about weather or not the ban is successful they just want a public distraction from laws that prevent the gambling industry taking advantage of the working class.

I see that your Australian too, I am interested what information shows the social media ban to be successful, I could be wrong but I think it’s safe to assume in most situations an apparent win for workers is disguised as a win for capital.

Well yay?

I just hope that people living in those countries still get free free access to other UN countries because that is a pretty cool benifit.

Living in australia right now. We still have a 2 party system, we still don’t have socialism. Still 99% of people you talk to will say communism works great in theory but in practice…

I wished preferential voting would have changed things, but it doesn’t.

Wait why is a working class party necessary in current capitalist systems when what we want is to overthrow the current governments and instate a socialist ones?

So real 😭

Mildly unrelated point that I wanted to say here, ive found that I can now find the answers to a lot of my questions by putting lemmy in the search bar instead of reddit. There definetly arent as many results but they are usually higher quality than redits.

Mindustry, great open source game. Although it was so addictive I ended up deleting it. Now I don’t have any games on my phone.

To extend that, people that have there notification sound on all the time is really annoying, just leave it on vibrate it’s just as useful!

Right?

My take: mr crabs are the capitalist class. Patrick is the working class and spongebob are the govenment.

Fascists kill non white people: meh

Fascists consider killing white people: now thats way out of line buddy!

Are other western nations cooked too? Curently living in australia :scared:

Just a random man, no one important in particular.

Oh right I needed to click on the show context button 🤦

I will agree with that.

Interesting so I guess still colonized but not genocided.

I think amerikkkians works well.

What was the original t-shirt?

My question was so bad I cannot understand what I ment by which ones.

What about like all of latin america? Where they not colanised by spain?