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Australia bans social media for children under 16
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Are right-wingers crying censorship?
I bet they aren't, they care more about policing children than they do free speech.
Yes, social media is bad for the mental health of everyone, especially children, but it's also how everyone under 40 gets their news now. This feels like a response to young people learning the Palestinian side of things through Tiktok.
Now they can juice them up on main stream media propaganda while they're young.
No it has bi-partisan support because it's got nothing to do with saving the children and everything to do with digital ID for all citizens. Time to VPN up mateys.
Your digital ID will then shown you're on a VPN
There are ways to avoid VPN detection
Our nerdy friends in China had to get creative for effectively the same reason. For people interested, "shadowsocks" is a decent starting point for reading about censorship circumvention.
Also, it's hard to read about methods of circumvention without being swamped in imperialist propaganda directed mostly at China. The West's vested interests in being able to easily access the Chinese populace also makes me (not just me...) question the origins and integrity of some methods (TOR is a pretty famous one that definitely does work, but allegedly has backdoors for the CIA/FBI).
Lots of interesting stuff out there. Lots of bullshit. Enjoy wading into the waters of endless propaganda
All your metadata is already recorded for 2 years iirc.
What're they getting from that on https though? As I understand it on https all your ISP sees is the website you visited, not anything after the ".com"
tbh I dunno at this point. There are astounding powers to force the creation of backdoors and stuff.
I think the overt stuff is 5 eyes partners + connection logs.
The website will store what you look at alongside any other metadata, surely. It only takes someone who wants to connect the dots to be able to do so.
Probably not for very long though. Logs are often cleared on a rotating basis as storage costs money.
That's probably the goal but I have a feeling it'll backfire and kids will find their way to places like this or they'll just learn how to use VPNs to get around the ban.
They will end up in far worse regulated dark parts of the internet. This has nothing to do with protecting the children. Kinda like how america's PATRIOT act was one of the least patriotic bits of legislation to ever pass at that point in time.
They want all australians to have to prove their real identities to use the internet.
On the plus side every time they try to make something happen with the internet hundreds of thousands of people end up with their data stolen. Wait that's not a plus.
Anyway go ahead, drive them off the internet and into the streets. That'll work out well for them heheheh.
that's us. or at least, we should make it us going forward
That's a good point, though. Maybe a positive unintended consequence—young people never misbehaved before the internet. We could return to that golden era.
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Not in plain sight, anyways, if they could help it.