Yes, you’re right, they rushed it through. …and that sucks.
Now what? Is that really the only meaningful complaint you can come up with about it?
I don’t support it because I think it’s overreach by a government that is already trying to make a nanny state.
…but I’m not naive enough to think it’s not going to work. It will work.
It probably has unintended consequences; that’s the problem.
Things like:
1. It will be trivial to bypass the restrictions.
2. The argument given in support of this Act by the OP was that it gives parents an excuse to prevent their kids from using social media. That’s going to work out great.
3. The mechanisms for verifying ID are not defined and will be decided without public debate. Adults will be forced to get a government controlled digital ID, or alternately social media companies will need to collect your official documentation to prove your age. Neither of these are palatable.
None of this has been considered. None of these concerns were allowed to be expressed by interested parties and the general public with sufficient time for comment.
That more than sucks. This is a government who wants to shove badly flawed legislation onto the Australian people because they are immensely unpopular.
I’m a Labor voter. Not next year.
Albanese and Co, who I voted for and quite liked, have shown that they need to be forced into a hung parliament to prevent their worst excesses. A huge pity.