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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by rcbrk@lemmy.ml to c/australia@aussie.zone

Australian Senate, last sitting of the year. No idea when the Social Media Ban debate is kicking off.

If anyone's keen, feel free to give a live run-down of anything interesting in this thread.

(sorry about all the edits, just trying to get a decent thumbnail: elevated photo of the Australian Senate)

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[-] Cypher@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago

I have warned about this. Access to online services will soon be locked behind your mygov id.

These plans have been in motion for a long time.

[-] quokka1@mastodon.au 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

@Cypher @rcbrk With a nice link between any nicks/profiles/gamer-tags you have and your actual MyGovID.
Mmmm mmm mmm smell that lovely data!
ASIO must be practically creaming themselves.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 6 points 1 day ago

Games are explicitly excluded from this law.

Which is kinda fucking ridiculous, as pointed out in debate, because in-game chat is often some of the most toxic you'll encounter.

tbh I'm more concerned about kids on cod or battle.net than insta chat (research has found a lot of kids using Instagram for absurd numbers of hours are actually just chatting).

this post was submitted on 28 Nov 2024
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