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Collective Shout, a small but vocal lobby group, has long called for a mandatory internet filter that would prevent access to adult content for everyone in Australia. Its director, Melinda Tankard Reist, was recently appointed to the stakeholder advisory board for the government’s age assurance technology trial before the under-16s social media ban comes into effect in Australia in December.

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[–] Lebensmittel@sh.itjust.works 78 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The argument is control. Religious zealots are all about controlling society and subduing people to follow their rules (that they themselves tend to break all the time)

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 17 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

That's their goal for sure, what I mean is how are they pretending to justify it?

There's usually some on-paper benevolent veneer to wrap their hateful bullshit up with.

For example, they hate trans people, but they don't campaign on that out loud - they justify that hated under the guise of shit like protecting bathrooms.

But this is fucking Steam - access to that bathroom is already under lock and key behind an armed guard. They can't just pull the "think of the children!" card when the children already have a myriad of protections.

...or maybe they can, considering what just happened. We live in stupid times.

[–] Lebensmittel@sh.itjust.works 19 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

They precisely can and they kinda just did. "Think of the children" is the magic phrase to shut down critical thinking and give you carte blanche to do whatever you want.

[–] ApatheticCactus@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Not always. School shootings happen and suddenly crickets on gun control. "Think of the children" only applies to moral outrage, not tangible physical threat prevention. Also applies to school lunches and any other actual tangible thing to ACTUALLY benefit general child welfare.

[–] Lebensmittel@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 hours ago

Sure, I implied moral outrage. It's not like they actually give a damn about the children.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 5 hours ago

"think of the children" WRT school ahootings means more police in American schools and arming American teachers.

[–] mriswith@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago

That's their goal for sure, what I mean is how are they pretending to justify it?

The same way they always do: "WONT SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN!?!?!?!1111"

[–] stratoscaster@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago

They are quite literally lying about the content of games like GTA V. They pulled the whole "the goal of the game is killing women" schtick

[–] Beero@lemmy.world 12 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

They want a nanny state to do their parenting for them, cus they are shit parents who spend their time petitioning the government about things they could just fucking unplug.

[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Bingo. They're just projecting their failures as inadequate parents because they didn't realize how hard child rearing would be after knocking up their high school sweetheart and buying a white picket fence. It's always the same case.