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Australia bans social media for under 16s
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This is technically feasible, and bussiness don't need to know your id. If anonymous government certificates are issued.
But I'm morally against it. We need to both educate on the dangers of internet and truly control harmful platforms.
But just locking it is bad for society. What happens with kids in shitty families that find in social media (not Facebook, think prime time Tumblr) a way to scape and find that there are people out there not as shitty as their family. Now they are just completely locked to their shitty family until it's too late.
I've said this before, and I'll keep saying it, we need better terms than "social media." Tumblr, Reddit, and Lemmy I don't think should be in the same group as Facebook, Twitter, etc. Social media that uses your real life information should be separate from basically forums that use an online persona.
I don't know what this legislation says, but I agree with you. It should be limited to restricting the "personal social media," not glorified internet forums.