ANY step is a good step, the alternative is to do nothing.

I guess they can made it illegal for Australian companies to advertise on Facebook, with huge fines.
They are local, subject to Australian laws, and it takes away funding from Facebook.

In fact do that to ALL social media.

The WORLD needs to get together and say FU to the USA. Too much of the crap they produce is now harmful
Imagine US social media looking financial access to 96% of the worlds population

I just like Guns, the US says too hard Australia said THIS is what we are going to do, guess which country won by having far far fewer shootings.

And I noted one thing, you did NOT have any solutions to offer.
So lets start and then refine, extend. Get VPN companies on board.... or make payments to them from Australian credicards illegal
Nothing needs to be perfect, it just has to become more of a hassle than its worth.
And the more countries that get onboard, the more effective it will become

How do you know it's ineffective ?

Just saying it's easy to get around it and pointing to a few who have done it....I refer you to Drunk Driving....easy to get around, lot of people do it.

Its not the one who break the law that matters as much as the ones it stops and those can not be recorded.

MORE countries should do this

And its NOT about "Free speech" , its about a companies faulty product and the harm it causes.
The companies OWN the speech, the control the speech, they use algorithms to trigger Dopamine etc to addict people
And they suppress any speech THEY do not like

The world would be better off without social media.

The world just needs to move on and move away from the USA for regulatory systems.

They have an anti-vax moron in charge of vaccines...
Lax controls over aircraft manufacturers
P!ss poor food regulations, full of chemicals, drugs, junk
Financial controls in the US are about to die

Well DUH, name a law that stops everyone.

There are a laws to stop Ped0s... but one still became POTUS...who STILL breaks laws

Drug users, Drink drivers, Thieves, Conmen, gRape, !ncest, etc etc etc....none of those laws stop those who dont care, so the answer according to your way of thinking is to remove the laws ?

It REALLY Weird how Australia restricted f!rearms and the mass sh00ting stopped, where as good ol USA averages 2 a day.
As the joke goes...if it weren't for the sh00tings, the world would not know the US has schools.

That's what SHOULD happen...BUT

The top 10% and more so the top 1% see themselves as righteously "better" than the rest of people.
There is less than zero chance of them giving up their privilege so you can be more equal with them.

At best you will be allowed subsistence living with no chance of changing your social status, at worst they will reduce the worlds population, replacing you with robots.

There is NO WAY those at the top are going to share this world with people like you and me.

My apologies....you are correct.

Their coal use is falling, their renewables are rapidly increasing and a a per head of population basis, the USA is the worst polluter.

There was NOTHING new or useful , it was 100% a waste of engineering time and resources.

Hey Apple, go look at "Books", it would even has been an embarrassing piece of shit way back on MacOs 7.

I have also NOT updates my M3 MBP, again, no reason to, I dont want more junk features.
How about making Mail work with "Shared' mail boxes on the exchange server, I am forced to use outlook to do this.

ZERO interest in all the AI wank/enshitification happening.
Apple is making thing HARDER to use, not better.

The "Some" get returned for a refund.

My TVs have NEVER and will NEVER be connected to my network.

If they will not work with being connected, then they will simply be considered faulty and I will have my money back.

Zero "Smart appliances" will be on my network...EVER.

They want my "info" they can have it at US$ 1 Million per year, paid in cash in advance, with zero refunds for any reason (including blocking access to my info).

At my work, I can't. Its mandatory and it can not be deleted (even if they give you admin rights).

Where I work, one drive (because it was "fee") became to default for storing backups as well as your network drive for PCs.

One drive on a Mac though is a million times worse than on a PC.

I can get Trade prices on Electrical supplies, this means I get up to 84% discounts.
I get discounts on TVs, phones, SSDs, etc , up to 50% off retail.
I also get education discounts on hardware/software , that also gives me good discounts , not just from Apple but most suppliers.
Apple has to run the servers , validate the software, run the accounting system, etc etc etc...Even for FREE Apps
And I also run a lot of open source software.
30% is quite reasonable in the retail market

Unlike MS, system software upgrades are free. Unlike Xbox/PS/etc hardware changes don't kill all of your existing games/Apps you bought
The linux tax is time, lots and lots of time. Time to learn, time to configure, time to try and get drivers for unusual hardware (or even get it to work at all). If that is your "happy place", good for you, it's not mine.
I have used computers since the TRS-80, and this platform flame war BS has been running since then, nearly 50 years.
Yes, I was using the "internet" using telnet, using dial-up BBSs, logging into the mainframe at work at 1200/75 baud then got preferential rights and use 2400 baud. It was boring then, its more so now.

Macs work for me, they work closer to the way I think than the alternatives do.
If other systems do they same for you, more power to you, but it does not change my life at all.
If I costed out the time lost if I went to a different platform, my Mac works out to be free, the "Tax" is actual loss in productivity.

Yep 100% US.

Its OK, they watched it all live at a VERY secure location...Maralago...

Probably raised the "rent" for the government bigly to covert the extra curtain used for the security.