alt Hacker News> We've been hearing politicians complain for years that they're losing the youth when it comes to long-standing foreign policy positions
I have literally never heard this.
The ban doesn't stop teens consuming social media content like tik tok. Your argument seems like quite a stretch.
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feb012025 • last Wednesday at 9:40 PM
I'm very surprised you've never heard anything like this.
Here's Hillary Clinton onstage a week ago: https://x.com/prem_thakker/status/1995961131215847749
DavidPiper • last Thursday at 1:37 AM
As another Australian, I have also never heard this.
There is a lot of Australian-American political confusion/conflation in this whole thread.
> The ban doesn't stop teens consuming social media content like tik tok.
That is exactly what the ban aims to do? TikTok is literally listed in the article as one of the platforms ordered to ban access by under-16s