Summary
Australia’s government plans to introduce legislation banning social media for under-16s. The proposed laws aim to mitigate the harm social media inflicts on Australian children.
The government will consult with parents, social media platforms, and experts about the age limit.
The legislation will not apply to young people already on social media, and there will be no penalties for users.
Even if this were enforceable I guarantee kids will just go elsewhere.
I ran servers for dumb shit like this off various free hosts in the early 00’s when most of my friends still had dialup ffs.
Chatgpt will have them setting up their own federations in minutes nowadays…
16 seconds is very young.
Yeah, I don’t feel well at all with the idea of letting newborns who may not even started suckling use social media. It’s a bit too soon.
This one is for the mums and dads… They, like me, are worried sick about the safety of our kids
Evergreen. Becoming a parent makes people paranoid. Catering to that paranoia is not helpful.
The only way to enforce these types of laws is to verify age, which means providing ID, which is ridiculous.
Y’all probably will be luckier if you try to give parents tools to decide and manage it, rather than doing a top down mandate…
Australian government is pretty hamfisted when it comes to this stuff.
Testing ground for 5 eyes secret police mass surveillance
I agree with you but this article really reflects the australian way of handling things. Rules and regulations. It’s good that they’re going to ask first though.
We have had a 13 minumum age for social media here for 15-ish years, and that’s not working at all. It’s unenforceable.
That doesn’t work kids will just lie about their age.
