[Calamityjanitor]

Poor Grant in this article was always against the law but now has to talk as if it's a good idea.

I looked into who was pushing for this law; a personality on a Murdoch owned radio station, along with Murdoch's News corp, a TV advertising company owner, and Jonathan Haidt as mentioned in the article, who is an anti-woke anti-academia hack https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2024/07/why-academics-...

Feels weird and gross to me that legacy media / advertising companies are crying over kids's mental health when they've been targeting teenagers with impossible standards and negatively influencing their self image for decades.

My personal conspiracy theory is that it was done to avoid scrutiny of advertising practices. A few months before academics started publishing findings on how problematic social media ads are; unhealthy foods, gambling, alcohol, and just plain scams. https://www.admscentre.org.au/adobservatory/

With 'kids' removed from social media, advertisers can better get away with less savoury stuff.

[XorNot]

Well, it's also because apparently the gambling lobby donates a ton of money to whoever is in government and there's just absolutely no possible way we could stop every vacant TV spot, bus side and radio station being wall to wall sports betting advertising.

Roll out Matt Damon to talk about the potential of it!