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https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Environment_and_Communications/SocialMediaMinimumAge

There's one person put in a particularly awkward position teen social media ban: the eSafety Commissioner.

She's avoided endorsing the ban multiple times, has subtly pushed back against it, and is now been made responsible for its administration.

https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/11/19/teen-social-media-ban-esafety-commissioner-julia-inman-grant/

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The purpose of this prosecution isn't to punish Boyle for lawbreaking.

The purpose of the prosecution is to make it completely clear that the State is the source of power, and any dissent which suggests that normal people can impose will on the State will be completely crushed.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/sep/18/ato-whistleblower-richard-boyle-prosecution-wife-anthony-albanese

Boyle challenged the power of the ATO. That's not allowed, so he's being destroyed. Simple.

It's cost him so much that it barely matters if they drop prosecution now, the aim has been attained.

“People can’t cooperate because we’re so tribal.”

People in actual tribal societies:

Cosmopolitan and diverse, with elaborate mechanisms for adopting people into their communities and sacred obligations to host strangers, able to cooperate with other communities to achieve shared goals with few resources or conveniences at their disposal.