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Speaker 1: The social media ban. I've been thinking about that. It's

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Speaker 1: like the pay equity debate. Actually not hard to drum

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Speaker 1: up a lot of emotion, not hard to find people

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Speaker 1: who would argue passionately for it. So in this sense,

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Speaker 1: perhaps unlike the pay equity debate, the government is on

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Speaker 1: the right side of this. Now, for the record, my

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Speaker 1: gut says the pay equity debate is somewhat of a risk,

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Speaker 1: but is more Beltway and union based than many thinking

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Speaker 1: won't ultimately damage the government. The social media ban won't

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Speaker 1: damage them either, even though it won't work, which it won't.

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Speaker 1: It's not like the school phone ban. A phone band

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Speaker 1: is black and white in class no phones. Now, that's

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Speaker 1: been successful because the government played the bad guy, allowing

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Speaker 1: schools to do what schools should have done all along.

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Speaker 1: The social media ban is designed to help parents be

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Speaker 1: the bad guys, backed by the government. Seeing now we're

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Speaker 1: looking to Australia. In Australia, they're exempting YouTube, they're exempting telegram,

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Speaker 1: they're exempting gaming and as part of that roadblocks. There

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Speaker 1: are confirmed reports of pedophile rings using roadblocks. So the

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Speaker 1: government and now arbiters of what's good what's bad what's wrong.

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Speaker 1: Libertarians will be having a field day. Director not on

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Speaker 1: board and act. By the way, according to their leader

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Speaker 1: who was listening to the Prime Minister on this program yesterday,

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Speaker 1: have not moved their position on backing the idea because

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Speaker 1: they don't. So the moment you go down the meta's

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Speaker 1: bad YouTuber's fine pathway, that's lawyers and possibly threats of

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Speaker 1: lawyers or possibly the pulling of services from country. The

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Speaker 1: government was also you might remember related matter, government was

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Speaker 1: also looking at big tech paying for local media for

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Speaker 1: content that the big tech takes and makes money off.

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Speaker 1: We were following Australia on that as well. What happened

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Speaker 1: to that trumped it and tariffs and threats of services

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Speaker 1: being pulled? Has any of it come to pass? No?

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Speaker 1: It has not. Will it come to pass No it

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