Kids will be Kids

From METRO of the UK, 16 Jan 2026

I am trying to look like my father and emulate his online behavior. The online porn will fit in nicely, in fact, in this respect... I know Mum complains about it all the time.

I think this is hilarious. The Labor government, in Britain, wants to follow in Australia's footsteps. Whatever the ins and outs of the case may be, this is the kind of measures that Western governments love, to better conceal their impotence and their paralysis: 

(i) Measures like this cost no money, as they are rarely enforced.

(ii) Enforcement may entail large fines levied on tech companies, which can be a plus, fiscally. 

(iii) Measures like this show that the government cares and is in listening mode (and I am the Queen of Sheba). 

(iv) Measures like this are supported by the politically correct consensus, flabby and self-satisfied:

while everyone focuses on teenagers' use of the Internet and social media, no one will worry about real issues that are rather more urgent and trickier, such as finding money to re-industrialize, or reducing unemployment, or boosting economic growth, or ensuring that the police actually do their job, etc., etc., etc.