Well, I generally don’t consider satire to be a solid argument, it usuallp consisting of a joke and all. But if it makes people think, I’d consider it a win.

This bill is clearly not an effective solution for the stated problem. If you think it is, you’d probably make a good liberal senator.

Cool. I was referring to last night’s Senate vote that passed 34-19.

Most of the Coalition. All of Labor. None of the cross-bench.

34 yes 19 no

Govt service, or privatised age-assurance face-scanning service wrought with error?

Satire, I thought it was obvious.

I’ll take that as a no

Now.

We should ban u16s from public transport. Too many have had fatal accidents. Compulsory learning from home.

Is lemmy exempt I wonder?

Except when it can’t make any calls because antenna firmware not having the right updates or some bs like that. This industry is a hot mess and I’m about to tap out.

Yea. That’s part of it. Keep reading.

Honestly, I’m sick of this industry and wasting my money on them. I’ll make do with a new $100 phone from the post office in case I need to make an emergency call. 000 will still work even without a sim.

Over many years the providers & industry have been allowed to manufacture the problem and they now get the opportunity to sell customers the solution with new handsets, all whilst harming competition, increasing profits and cutting costs by shutting down the 3G network.

How is this legal?! So the likes of Telstra are blocking otherwise functional phones?

Good to here Max Chandler Mather out there again showing some solidarity.

agreed. Is Ferguson always like this? Max did well not getting pushed around.

Does this mean the articles will read less like a tabloid and more like news again?

AFP child abusers. Who cares about the cost. This operation was harmful to the community and to the child, who has a right to/needed proper education around ethics & morals not this cloak & dagger manipulation.

It’s not a choice between blaming the scooter or the truck driver. It’s a choice between building safe light-vehicle and pedestrian infrastructure or car-centric urban planning.

Cars and trucks are linked with injuries and hospital visits [edit: and deaths] of pedestrians, cyclists and e-scooters – but let’s just blame the victim, shall we?

This case is more controversial within the US government than you might think.