I'm pretty sure it is going to pass.
Too much of a coordinated efforts between western countries, thus it cannot fail. The decisions have been made and your voice pretty much doesn't matter.
I'm pretty sure it is going to pass.
Too much of a coordinated efforts between western countries, thus it cannot fail. The decisions have been made and your voice pretty much doesn't matter.
> The decisions have been made and your voice pretty much doesn't matter
Source for these bans being unpopular?
The confusion you are displaying is because you are not cognizant of whats going on throughout the world particularly in advanced economies that have opened their doors to all forms of migration legal and illegal.
The timing of this coincides with countries in particular have seen a major rise in anti-migration sentiments which have become very fashionable and popular among young men in particular as polls show a global trend of men under 30s are shifting towards right wing with women towards leftwing.
Suddenly, they decide NOW is the time to stop despite the fact that they've allowed young people to be exposed to all sorts of "dangerous content" and algorithms for decades, in the late 90s and early 2000s as teenagers we had uncensored access to the internet, warez, anarchy, shock as they have circumventions widely shared among each other today.
In short, these countries are so concerned about a civil unrest in particular between religious groups that are perceived to have "overstayed their welcome" that they are outright trying to shutdown online discourse both legitimate and exaggerated.
Europe, in particular UK, are on the brink of a major civil war as per intelligence reports and the ban for the young won't be the last but that the net would be cast even wider. It's a last ditched effort bandaid solution to keep the dam from bursting. With the backdrop of Keir Starmer's threats to extradite Americans and jail people for posting grievances against the demographic crisis, you can see where Europe and other advanced economies even in places like Korea mirror the trends, conflicts and draconian laws to buy time for the inevitable.
If we want to keep this debate going there has to be an understanding of the political context and direction that can only be realized through inference and intuition. They will never openly announce true motives as that would hinder the objective. The comments I am seeing are awfully similar to the confusion and fierce debate I see around wrestling control of TikTok, which have largely been blamed on China, but the concern around uncensored videos of atrocities committed in the middle east reaching hundreds of millions of young people that has shifted steadfast opinions of a certain country which for decades were positive, now show significant departure among age brackets within the same political camp which shocked a lot of old people from that same side.
Perception is everything and the question "asking for a source on if these bans popular" completely misses the mark and irrelevant, rather the more interesting question is,
"will these bans that limit freedom of information and speech escalate and proliferate in the near future and whether France, Australia, Korea is just the start?"
" will the countries reviewing ban like new zealand, greece, canada invite more countries to join the trend?"
" why are these bans being accelerated in countries that have seen a large wave of migrations that are causing major frictions?"
> similar to the confusion and fierce debate I see around wrestling control of TikTok, which have largely been blamed on China, but the concern around uncensored videos of atrocities committed in the middle east
I worked on the TikTok bill. Middle East stuff never came up.
It might have had a role in New York and Michigan. But most of the debate, drafting and lobbying was in respect of national security, trade policy and a touch of Taiwan policy.
When you have a pet issue you tend to see everything through it. My pet war was Ukraine. For a time I had to fight the impulse to classify everything as a derivative of it.
You've written 6 paragraphs without answering what was asked.
I've provided an answer which requires understanding because if you don't seek to connect the dots any response to whatever question is being asked will be immediately negated or denied making further debate impossible.
I think your tinfoil hat may have a hole in it.
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To be fair, nobody said that this was unpopular
The parent said that your voice does not matter, nothing about the volume of such voices