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Australia to set minimum age for children using social media · The Slippery Slope

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  Hi, I'm Jay Fallon, thanks for listening to The Slippery Slope.
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  So if you're in Australia, you would have heard about this
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  story, I'm assuming because it was all over the news for for a
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  couple of days. And that's how the government
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  has now decided. Well, Nah, let me backtrack
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  backpack a little. It's not that the government has
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  now just suddenly decided. The government has been doing
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  this for quite a long time and we have been allowing them to do
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  it. The government decided quite
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  some time ago that they were better parents than mum and dad.
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  If you had children. The Australian government and
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  state governments, they think they are better, they are more
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  suited to parent your child. That's the desire.
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  That's their desire. That's what that's what they're
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  telling everyone that's in going by the the way we've been
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  legislated, that's what you'd have to assume.
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  You know, we're no longer allowed to discipline, can't
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  discipline your children can't raise your voice.
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  You have to even these days we're taught in our daycare
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  system, kidney systems, that some teachers, and this is
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  factual. You have to you're supposed to
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  be asking consent from a baby. I'm talking like however young
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  they're allowed to come into childcare.
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  A baby, you're supposed to be asking consent before you change
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  a dirty nappy asking consent. I mean, the baby is most likely
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  uncomfortable. Shouldn't be sitting in a nappy
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  that's been soiled. It's it's it's not good.
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  It's unhealthy. And yet you're supposed to wait
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  till you're supposed to get consent, gain consent.
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  You're supposed to make time, make time for the baby, you
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  know, just lay them down and talk to them gently.
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  And, you know, my, I'm about to change a nap here.
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  It's dirty. Is that OK?
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  And then give space for the child, apparently to, I don't
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  know, go goo goo Gaga. Yeah, that's right.
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  As long as the child's happy, then that's all right.
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  That's what they'll do. It's a weird time, but this is
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  what's happened in Australia. The Australian government have
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  decided they are better parents than you or I.
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  They know best. So they've now decided that
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  they're going to set, they're going to legislate a minimum age
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  for children in Australia to use social media.
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  Now, I may be a little old fashioned, just a little old
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  fashioned, but I always thought that that kind of thing.
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  If you're a parent, well, then that's the parent's
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  responsibility. Parents, you're supposed to be
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  parents to your children, OK? You're not out there trying to
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  be the best friend, trying to be the mate.
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  You don't have to get along. You have to train your child,
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  train your child. You have you're supposed to be
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  guiding your child so your child can have a good fulfilling life,
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  so your child can grow up, be a decent human being, have ethics,
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  have morals. Train them to do good.
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  Train them to obey the law of the land.
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  Train them. If you're a Christian, which I
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  hope you would be, train them in the ways of the Bible, biblical
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  principles, biblical morals, godly ways that you're supposed
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  to discipline your child. If you don't want, how can I say
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  it? Well, if you don't want your
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  child to end up being a a prick of an adult, a little criminal,
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  you're supposed to discipline. Train them.
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  Discipline them when they do wrong.
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  It doesn't mean you just flog the heck out of them.
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  Doesn't mean you just, you know, 'cause, injuries, bruises.
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  No, but you are supposed to set boundaries for your children.
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  Set boundaries. Funny enough, parents need to
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  behave like parents. And this is the problem.
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  For decades, literally decades, we've had successive governments
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  tell us that they know better than parents, that they can do
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  things better, that we're not allowed to discipline, otherwise
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  parents will get in trouble. And you know, and then even at
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  the moment here in Queensland, we've had we, we have a real
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  problem with youth crime and that's you don't think there's
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  any correlation. The government doesn't seem to
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  see that there's a correlation between high youth crime and and
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  tying parents hands behind their back when it comes to discipline
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  or not encouraging the family unit.
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  You know, the good old mom, dad and child.
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  No, no encouraging making it easy or single parent houses.
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  And and that's not not attacking single parent houses.
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  Some sometimes that has to happen.
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  The, The thing is, the government's made it easier for
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  that to happen where young, well, young males don't feel,
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  don't see that they have a responsibility to look after
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  their children. And young females, well, they
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  don't see the responsibility at all or the necessity to have a
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  father involved in their children's lives either, because
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  they've been told by governments, well, it's all
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  right. We'll look after you, we'll help
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  you, we'll give you money. You know, you know, you don't
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  need the father if you don't want the father.
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  So that's, that's all good. We're just going to pay you and
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  we'll make him pay. And they said to father as well,
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  as long as you pay money, you don't have to really take
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  responsibility for your child. And this is where we've gone
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  wrong as a society. So we've got governments telling
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  us for a couple of generations now that they know better.
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  So I'll bring up this article. This is what's happened here in
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  Australia. Absolutely ridiculous.
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  Absolutely, this is a scourge. This is from the National Post,
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  This is a scourge. It says Australia to set minimum
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  age for children using social media.
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  Subheading says we know that there is mental health
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  consequences for what many of the young people have had to
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  deal with. Well, maybe there is.
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  I don't don't doubt it. But that's because also parents
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  aren't being involved in their children's lives.
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  Take some flippin responsibility, parents, take
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  some responsibility. The onus is on you, the burden's
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  on you to be the parent. So the Australian government was
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  last Tuesday promised to legislate this year to enforce a
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  minimum age for children to access social media, but it has
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  yet to announce how ages will be verified.
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  Goodness. So several countries and U.S.
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  states are attempting to legislate to spare children harm
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  from social media, including bullying.
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  Now this is this is the problem. You can't disagree with that.
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  They come in and say, well, this is for the benefit of the child.
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  Children are getting harmed online.
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  So this is to protect them. So no one, you can't stand up
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  and protest because who are you? That's disgusting.
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  We're, we're only here to help the child.
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  There's nothing else, nothing else happening, nothing else
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  nefarious happening behind the scenes.
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  So you can't really protest about it, can you?
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  No, because you have to agree with what the government's
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  saying. That's the way they frame it.
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  That is the way they front frame it.
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  So goes on. The Australian move comes as
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  parents increasing call for their children to be protected
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  online. See, they tell you that parents
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  are increasing calls for their children to be protected, but
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  it's the parents responsibility to protect the child.
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  They should be monitoring, they should be limiting, they should
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  be pulling the access themselves.
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  But parents don't understand how to be parents anymore.
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  We, we've raised up a whole generation of parents who think
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  that gentle parenting is actually a thing.
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  I'll tell you something. Let me tell you something.
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  I'll tell you this for free. Gentle parenting is stupid.
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  Absolutely stupid. If you practise gentle
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  parenting, I am sorry if this if you find this insulting.
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  There's nothing biblical about it.
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  It's just if you look into what gentle parenting is, it is
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  pathetic and dumb and you will not raise a disciplined
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  functioning adult. You're very unlikely to anyway.
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  It's just my to Bob's worth it anyway.
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  So it goes on to say we're committed to introducing
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  legislation before the end of this year for age verification
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  to make sure that we get young people away from this social
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  harm, Albanese told Australian Broadcasting Corp the ABC.
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  This is a scourge, He said. We know that there is mental
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  health consequences for what many of the young people have
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  had to deal with, the bullying that can occur online, the
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  access to material which causes social harm and parents are
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  wanting a response or parents don't want a response from you.
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  Elbow parents need to step up and be parents.
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  I've said it before, I'll say it again.
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  Parents need to step up and be parents.
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  Stop relying on the government to make the rules for your
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  children. When your children are in your
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  home, in their bedroom, doing stuff, go in there and make sure
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  they're doing the right thing. Limit their access yourself, you
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  numbskull parents. What is going on here?
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  Why? Why is everyone suddenly relying
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  on the government to make these rules?
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  It's just crazy. Do it yourself.
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  Anyway, I want to go back because this is one thing.
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  I think this is where the dangerous thing comes.
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  And this is, like I said, they, they frame the narrative as
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  though, well, we're protecting the child.
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  So, you know, you can't, you can't protest this.
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  We're protecting the child. However, he says here committed
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  to introducing legislation before the the end of this year
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  for age verification to make sure that we get young people
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  away from social media age verification.
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  I believe, OK, this is just, this is just a way for the
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  Australian government, another way for the Australian
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  Government to try and get more information about its citizens.
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  At the moment all the information that they get, you
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  know, from the censors, from people who have licences and
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  bank accounts and all that stuff, but it's just another way
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  for them to track who's who in the zoo.
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  They'll just be scraping all that information while this is
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  our children, this is what they're up to, that's all.
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  This is another way for them to steal our informations, to steal
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  the information of our children in a back door way, to get in,
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  to get more, to gain more information about families.
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  I don't think this is about protecting the children at all
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  at all. I think parents, like I said,
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  should be stepping up. But I think the reality is we're
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  just seeing the government taking away more of our privacy,
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  more of our privacy. And well, as the director of
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  ASIO just said just the other week, well, you know, for people
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  who are concerned about privacy, well, if you're not doing
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  anything wrong, no one's looking at you.
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  So you have privacy, which is a very warped way of looking at
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  it. And it means that in reality you
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  don't have privacy at all. But this is the Australian
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  government. That's easier.
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  That's what they think. This isn't about protecting your
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  children. This is about stealing more
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  information. It's nothing to do with
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  protecting children and parents. Step up, do your job.
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  That's my opinion. My name is Jay Fallon.
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  Thanks for listening to the Slippery Slope.