Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement.
Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences.
Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else.
Enough.
One of the obvious problems with a under-16 social media ban is that it won't work. (60%+ of Australian under-16s are still using these platforms).
But it will make people feel like something has been done so they won't tackle the content, which is the real issue.
We need leaders who can spell out what's happening clearly and with force.
I mean, who would ever have suspected?
Or rather, waiting for an excuse.
That would be objectively hilarious.
If sexual abuse was really considered a terrible thing, the world's richest and most powerful people wouldn't be abusers. The most valued technology wouldn't produce sexual abuse on demand. And allegations of abuse wouldn't be framed as positive depictions of masculinity. Our culture rewards abuse.
They don't have any reporters.
But they're convinced it's 8.
Yeah I'm gonna have to search for Man With a Gun, though. Sounds epic!