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"Sports influencers and celebrity influencers or whatever it is that's driving this craze, they should be thinking and reflecting very strongly about [Run it Straight] now. But it's not something you can practically ban at a government level. But it's just calling for people to exercise individual responsibility."
#ChristopherLuxon, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=13bfab36-a20f-4a61-8f3f-575d334abce0
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So ... let me get this straight. You can't ban an obviously dangerous for-profit activity that's already killed someone. That we leave to "personal responsibility".
But you *can* ban kids from using social media? Rather than leaving them and their parents to exercise personal responsibility over whether and how they use it. You can also maintain a ban on recreational use of cannabis, despite no evidence of anyone dying from it in thousands of years of use.
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Do not believe this " banning kids from social media" crap.
It's real-ID to use the Internet #authoritarian #fascist nonsense.
The fascists in power everywhere wan to do the #nazi "Papers Please"
Think through the tech implementation.
It's ID or no internet for EVERYONE!
That's the worst case scenario, and it's good to see both the Greens and ACT speaking out against knee-jerk social media policy (see my posts on Anthony Albanese's vague waffle). As Chloë Swarbrick pointed out to Guyon Espiner on 30, the real problem that needs addressing is the power of the platforms. A lot of the weak tea or mistargeted social media policy coming down the pipeline is either a sacrificial lamb, or regulatory capture at work.
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