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This will end in a generation best equipped to avoid government mandated network restrictions.
And one that will have good reason to disrespect government and the law.
Restrictive tech policies just lead to populations that are tech savier.
Good, we kinda need it.
This might be what makes the fediverse finally become mainstream.
Come join the fediverse. Now illegal in Australia!
It gets my attention but I don’t really see the mainstream appeal.
Gambling is an age-restricted activity because it exploits the brain’s reward mechanisms to drive profits, and can lead to addiction. Big tech social media platforms have a lot in common with slot machines, designed deliberately to drive profits, so this law makes sense. Now make free to play games with loot boxes an age-restricted activity.
“10 of the largest platforms”
So they’ll move to the 11th…
Maybe if they focused on the root of the problems with Social Media instead of banning it from children, they could make the world a better place for everyone.
Endless scrolling and their recommendation algorithms keep people on their platforms for far longer than otherwise intended. They could start with forcing these companies to have chronological posts with a fixed number of posts per page to give users a natural break point for when to stop.
I always know I’m dealing with a scumbag normie website when there’s infinite scrolling with no option for pagination.
It’s getting pretty easy to avoid the herd.
This is nothing to do with children.
The Australian media demanded these laws so they could control the political climate in Australia. By mandating identity they can go after anyone who opposes them.
So, the ban is focused on Social Media apps which refuse to comply with demands to fix cyberbullying. If an app complies it will no longer be banned.
They can still access social media. They just can’t have accounts.
Which does mean they can’t access a lot of adult content. So there’s that.
Heh no. 4chan is not banned.
You don’t need an account for 4chan anyways. My point is that no social media accounts means nsfw posts on twitter, reddit, youtube are harder to access.
As an Australian, Discord wants me to verify my age to access nsfw channels. I aint giving discord my real credentials. I will work out something later when I have had a coffee… and uppers
Same boat. Managed to bypass it in 15 minutes by using random photos of IDs from google images.
The best way to implement that ban is to have a variable on the device (smartphone) that holds the approximate birthdate of the user (sth like 2002-01-01) and then the device gives forward the information about whether the user is 16+, 18+ forward to any app of maybe even website that requests that info.
The parent who buys the device gets a code to configure the device to set the birthdate, and without that code, it’s not changeable for the user. The platforms then only have to look at that variable to figure out whether the user is old enough.
This way, you shift responsibility to the user, but in a way that is technically possible. Because today, it’s almost impossible for a not ultra-tech-affine parent to actually implement age controls on their children’s devices.
How about parents just parent their children? I know not everyone can do this but the state should not be thought of as your nanny
How about just use localised parental controls without this complex police state garbage. In addition, making it 16+ is extremely discriminatory and ageist. A blanket ban which treats teens like children is not acceptable and no individual should feel oppressed under their own law.
I don’t know if this is the answer but I’m glad someone is trying something. will be a good case study regardless.
Gotta start somewhere. Let them try and see how it goes.
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That just shows how much of an idiot these people are. These teenagers are just going to learn to use platforms such as Mastodon, Lemmy, and Nostr.
Probably not and, at any rate, those platforms are far, far superior, in terms of cyberbullying, than the commercial platforms.
especially in terms of being less addictive
