[aaplok]

> a bit more time actually parenting

Well, "blame the parents" is as hypocritical as "think of the children". It just displaces the responsibility of excluding kids from society from the community to the parents.

Creating a safe society for everyone is one of the roles of the state/government. That is why they are granted a monopoly on violence. As you rightly say, children are members of the society and therefore they are included in that responsibility.

The Australian government should be rightly criticized for passing a law that makes being online less safe for adults. However, that doesn't mean we should dismiss the alleged aim of the law, protecting children from harmful online content. It is a real problem that deserves serious attention.

[rainonmoon]

I don’t think we should pass laws just because there was allegedly a nice thought behind him. More reasonable protections have been in discussion for long before this entered the picture. That aside, you probably missed this, but the exact same government passed a law to convict children with adult sentences in the same week as this. You probably also missed that this same government which pledged to pass ready-to-go privacy laws at the start of its previous term has taken that off the table. There were plenty of other options that were already being deliberated to deal with your concerns, but this government is the one that has “dismissed” them, not critics of this reactionary theatre.