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Speaker 1: We live in a world that seemingly, seemingly is spelling

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Speaker 1: over with hate and division at the moment. You don't

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Speaker 1: have to look far to find it. Just in the

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Speaker 1: past few days. Look at this nineteen year old ISIS

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Speaker 1: inspired terror suspect planning to kill himself and as many

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Speaker 1: Taylor Swift fans as possible. You've got rioting, You've got

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Speaker 1: division on the streets of UK. Australia has raised its

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Speaker 1: terror threat level. Remember that sixteen year old teenager who

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Speaker 1: stabbed a religious cleric in Australia, suspected religious extremism behind it.

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Speaker 1: You've got Trump. Remember this was only last month. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's almost like we've forgotten about that, isn't it, Because

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Speaker 1: there's so much going on. They all have one thing

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Speaker 1: in common, the Internet. You know, this nineteen year old

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Speaker 1: Isis would be mass murderer. He and his two alleged

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Speaker 1: teenage accomplices, they were serious. They had chemical explosives, they

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Speaker 1: had detonateds Allegedly, they were radicalized online. The UK riots

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Speaker 1: fueled by false information about that stabbing suspect. They were

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Speaker 1: all raked up, fired up by being on the Internet.

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Speaker 1: Where did it all happen? Online? Australia. Remember those seven

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Speaker 1: teenagers arrested in April for alleged extremist ideology. All happened online.

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Speaker 1: I could go on, but you get the point. Young

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Speaker 1: impressionable minds, endless scrolling on social media, and it's the

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Speaker 1: wild West of content. Every kid has a mental health

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Speaker 1: problem these days. If you noticed that, turn on the news.

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Speaker 1: Everyone's sad and why Well, it's obviously, isn't it the internet?

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Speaker 1: Isn't it our phones? And what are we doing about it?

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Speaker 1: And this is what happens when you scroll on a

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Speaker 1: don't talk to them face to face. You don't moderate

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Speaker 1: your thoughts with body language and facial expressions and all

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Speaker 1: those important things that I think help to make our

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Speaker 1: debates a bit more human. We lose all that when

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Speaker 1: we go online and when we scroll endlessly. Apparently we

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Speaker 1: will spend between ten years ten to seventeen years of

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Speaker 1: our lives scrolling on our phones. How sad is that?

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Speaker 1: And for kids it's worse. So on what have I

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Speaker 1: done about it? Well, I've deleted the apps on my phone,

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Speaker 1: The social media apps, And not that I'm saying I'm

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Speaker 1: going to solve the world, but I'm just seeing if

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Speaker 1: I'll feel better about the world. And I wonder why

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Speaker 1: more people aren't doing it. Maybe you are. For more

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