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No doubt you’ll have heard about the popular children’s sex education book Welcome to Sex being pulled from Big W’s shelves after mainstream media outlets compared it to “child abuse material”. The full story, as I reported, is that it was the end result of a month-long campaign by online anti-LGBTQIA+ conspiracy theorists. Just another normal week in Australia’s culture wars!
But the whole saga prompted me to think about what we’re allowed to post online, how that doesn’t always match expectations about what is harmful, and whether today’s moral panic about sex and children is one of the unintended consequences of big tech’s business model.
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