> And the Prime Minister is on record saying if he was dictator for a day he’d ban all social media.
I'd vote for him. How secure are Oz's elections? Do I need to show ID? Just picture the world without facebook and twitter and reddit. What a wonderful place that would be. I'd trade in HN for it.
How do you suppose an intelligent 16 y/o Australian should get their news? Twitter / Bluesky / Mastodon / Youtube / Reddit are this generation's Guardian / NYT / Der Spiegel / Le Monde / Reuters.
We can bag those apps, but the fact they're 90% trash [1] doesn't mean they can't be used intelligently basically 100% of the time. Used properly, they're superior sources of information to papers/TV.
Deleted, not sufficiently positive discussion.
> And the Prime Minister is on record saying if he was dictator for a day he’d ban all social media.
I'd vote for him. How secure are Oz's elections? Do I need to show ID? Just picture the world without facebook and twitter and reddit. What a wonderful place that would be. I'd trade in HN for it.
How do you suppose an intelligent 16 y/o Australian should get their news? Twitter / Bluesky / Mastodon / Youtube / Reddit are this generation's Guardian / NYT / Der Spiegel / Le Monde / Reuters.
We can bag those apps, but the fact they're 90% trash [1] doesn't mean they can't be used intelligently basically 100% of the time. Used properly, they're superior sources of information to papers/TV.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law