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Andrew Dickens: Good luck with the social media ban Australia · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: So today is the day the Australians lead the world
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  Speaker 1: with the social media ban for people under sixteen. So
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  Speaker 1: good luck with that, because you know, the kids who
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  Speaker 1: still want to be online will get around it, because
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  Speaker 1: you know, kids and computers. They can't speak the Queen's English,
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  Speaker 1: but they can sure speak computer. They'll get round it.
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  Speaker 1: They'll VPN, they'll forge and weasele their way through the
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  Speaker 1: same way that we all got our hands on booze
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  Speaker 1: when we were under age. And the kids who will
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  Speaker 1: actively skirt the law are either the ones who believe
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  Speaker 1: that social media benefits their life and society and I
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  Speaker 1: need it and I want it, I'm going to have
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  Speaker 1: it and I'm prepared to break the law, or they're
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  Speaker 1: hoping one day they might actually get some positive self
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  Speaker 1: affirmation off it, even though more often than not they're bullied,
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  Speaker 1: and of course the bullies themselves. Because the bullies like
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  Speaker 1: the social media and they want to keep doing it
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  Speaker 1: and they having fun. They are not going to pay
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  Speaker 1: attention to some words in black and white written by
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  Speaker 1: some old parliamentarians in a grand hall wearing their fancy clothes.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Dad, no thanks. The kids are not going to
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  Speaker 1: be thankful you've taken away their town hall, their community center,
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  Speaker 1: their pub. They're going to be some of them are
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  Speaker 1: going to be resentful, are going to be happy, some
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  Speaker 1: are going to be resentful. And I reckon there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of parents who reckon social media has rotted their brains,
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  Speaker 1: the brains of their kids, so they're behind it. And
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  Speaker 1: why we've asked them. They go, well, oh, they are
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  Speaker 1: on social media, my kids and now they've turned into socialists.
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  Speaker 1: Just anyway, look the whole thing, and I think Patrick
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  Speaker 1: said this, it's a signal, and that's virtue signaling. And
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  Speaker 1: we all know how we feel about virtue signaling. The
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  Speaker 1: last government was great in even if the virtue is
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  Speaker 1: a good one. And speaking which talking about virtue signaling,
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  Speaker 1: I found the whole argibargie between the Before sixteen crew
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  Speaker 1: and the Prime Minister to be a little bit distasteful.
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  Speaker 1: It seemed like these guys were more concerned about who
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  Speaker 1: gets the credit for the posturing rather than helping the
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  Speaker 1: kids themselves. But look, here we go, the messages out there,
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  Speaker 1: and it's a good one. Keep your kids' social media
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  Speaker 1: usage as low as possible. You are the parent, so parent,
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  Speaker 1: and here's my thing, My boys are in their twenties
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  Speaker 1: and they grew they grew up with all of this,
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  Speaker 1: and I remember asking them when they are teens, boys,
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  Speaker 1: if you've been cyber bullied on social media? And their
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  Speaker 1: reply was not really. And then they said, look, if
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  Speaker 1: you're being bullied and if you're being handled, what do
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  Speaker 1: you do is you block the dickheads. And that's what
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  Speaker 1: I do. That's what we do too. Oh and we
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  Speaker 1: just turned the phone off. And by the way, can
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  Speaker 1: you drive me to football? Kids are still being kids,
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  Speaker 1: And I see them out and about at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: They're on holiday already. They're at the beach and they're
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  Speaker 1: hanging out and they're not scrolling on their phones. But
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