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Australia is the first nation to ban social media for under-16s. (globalvoices.org)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Landmark legislation sees the Australian government committed to the novel step of child protection by banning social media for under sixteens.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (5 children)

What happens if an Australian kid starts running their own Pixelfed or Lemmy site?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We are yet to see. My guess is they charge the kid for providing social media to an underaged user (themselves). Will be very interesting to watch ngl. Also idk how they gonna implement it cos i sure as shit aint handing over my id to the social media companies.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I'm not sure that a self hosted ActivityPub site with a single user could reasonably be called a social media site. I wonder how the law defines a social media site.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In further news, millions of teenagers have become experts at vpns and bypassing online restrictions

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If only this applied to the parents as well... No more using your children online to make a buck as an influencer.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Good luck with that.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I'm just waiting until they remember why borders are a thing that exists.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Absolute stupidity and a waste of taxpayers' money spending so much time on this nonsense.

These incompetent morons are pretty much guaranteeing that they will lose the next election. In the middle of a housing and inflation crisis this is what these fuckheads decided was important.

I loathe the opposition, but it's hard to defend the sheer incompetence the Labor Party has displayed their entire term.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Australian government is to cowardly to regulate social media to be healthy for all ages.