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Comment by jay_kyburz | Hacker News Reader

I'm an everyday Australian, I'll take a few guesses. (I don't support these new laws)

1. we don't have as an antagonistic relationship with our government and we trust that most of what will be banned will be gross stuff we don't want weirdos watching.

2. I think most people feel social media really is breaking young people, and its easier if all kids are banned than just trying to ban your own kids. It's really hard to explain to a kid why they are not allowed to watch you tube when every other kid is.

Update: Also, the only thing this law is going to do is to force every parent in Australia to create accounts for their kids.

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To use the Donald Horne quote "Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people's ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise."

Unfortunately, this has propagated down to a lot of the people. They want the government to be the parent instead.

As Jordan Shanks once said - "I have 6 investment properties" is the entire personality of a lot of Aussies. Many others are the same they just don't have the opportunity.

This whole situation appears to be a failing on all angles. From government over reach, corporate greed by forgoing morals to the people who are so worn down they just don't have anything left to give.

I'm not sure I would describe it as government overreach, to me it looks more like the government doesn't understand the tech and what these new rules mean.

I would have more respect if they just came out and said you can't be anonymous on social media any more. When you post, somebody needs to know who you are, how old you are, and where you live.

I think the world would be a better place if everybody would just pull their head in and get off social media.

With respect to Donald Horne, its not the 60's any more, and there are plenty of great Australian ideas and culture. The hottest 100 last weekend is a great reminder of how much great Australian music there is.

>we don't have as an antagonistic relationship with our government

They have one with us.

> It's really hard to explain to a kid

Laws created based on parent's inability to explain something to their kids are invariably shit.

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