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Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery (theconversation.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

@Baku @Nath Oh. So even if I set some things up in Singapore (closest with decent latency I think) then I, being resident here, can still be punished for not requiring age verification on it? That seems helluva over-reach.
Mind you, whole concept is an over-reach.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just my assumption, couldn't answer that definitively. I'm guessing that, like GDPR in the EU, it will apply to any and all social media website on the internet, but for practical reasons, can't really be enforced outside of the legislating authorities' jurisdiction. I mean, Cuba, for instance, could fine you at any time if they had laws permitting for it, but if you've never been, and never intend to go to Cuba, it doesn't really do very much

Going back to the real world, I'm doubtful foreign websites hosted outside of Australia, by non Australians, would ever be "prosecuted", it's just a huge waste of time. Maybe any countries we have close relationships with would do our dirty work for us. I assume that this would apply to any Australian or any Australian company or any Australian server. Just my non professional assumption though, could be totally wrong!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I’m guessing that, like GDPR in the EU, it will apply to any and all social media website on the internet, but for practical reasons, can’t really be enforced outside of the legislating authorities’ jurisdiction.

The legislation specifically gives the Act extra-territorial powers to enforce the ban against foreign websites.

Reddit is specifically targetted ; it will definitely include Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

One possibility is the Brazilian way to do law enforcement: blocking the domain and server IP addresses through ISPs.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

@dsilverz
Other Australian Government advice is to use a VPN.

Even a free VPN via Proton gives me 35/18 Mbps via Tokyo.

So, unless they get ISPs to block access to VPNs, blocking an IP address won't work.

(I really hope I haven't given Albo any ideas here...)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Here in Brazil, a Supreme Court minister has ruled on several occasions to block certain websites and services, the most recent being X/Twitter. Along with his decision to block these websites, he also imposed fines on those caught using VPNs to bypass ISP blocking. Although VPN traffic is encrypted and impossible for governments to monitor, somehow this worked because several people were fined. It is likely that Supreme Court agents monitored these networks in order to detect possible Brazilians using them during such blockages. An Australian should expect their government to proceed in a similar fashion.

(Just for clarification, I'm not going into the merits of this, just stating that this is technically possible and that there is a precedent in the government of a country, in aforementioned case, Brazil. Whether this is good or bad will depend on many factors)