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Stephan
@stephancill
Seeing lots of people on Twitter dunk on this new law in Australia preventing children under 16 from using social media. What do you think?
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kripcat.eth 🎩
@kripcat.eth
One nuance often missed when these seemingly authoritarian things out of Australia pop up Twitter (cigarette taxes & plain packaging, gun control, lockdowns and vaccination policy etc) is that we have historically had a very different relationship with our government than the US. The social contract is different. We give up more freedoms and expect more from our government in return. Contrast compulsory voting and universal healthcare with the US. We have a higher expectation of responsibility from both government and citizens. We might share a language and Crocodile Dundee might have promoted an image of us as rough and rugged, country living individualists, but 90% of us live in cities and we’re really been quite social democratic in the same way as western Europe for much of our history.
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Jört User
@jort-user.eth
The only thing keeping this together is the free money we get from exporting rocks to China. Remember when substantial amounts of parliament were revealed to be in the pocket of the CCP by the way? We are simply too comfortable and incompetent to care.
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